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Article: Quality: Testing times.
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- Metalworking Production
- Article date:
- June 18, 2004
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Materials testing assumes an increasingly prolific and vital role as companies in high technology sectors address more complex and critical applications
The demands placed by the metal user industries on the quality and performance of materials for components, fabrications and assemblies, have never been more rigorous. Materials specifications have always had to balance the sometimes conflicting requirements of part production processes and in-service performance. This is nowadays exacerbated by the drive in the developed industrial economies towards more complex, higher added value work - which in turn means more testing (with results you can trust), and ...