Material Testing

Material Testing of implantable medical device is critical to ensure product safety and meeting the standards of the highly regulated medical industry. STEMart offers fast, reliable testing and inspection services for metallic, ceramic, plastic materials used in the manufacture of medical implants. We provide important information that customers need for product qualification, material verification, production control and other important business decisions.

Applicable Standards

• ASTM
• ISO

Test Capabilities

• Coating Analysis
• Coating / plating thickness
• Shear strength
• Tensile strength
• Stereological evaluation
• Abrasion resistance
• Dissolution test of calcium phosphate
• Morphology and mechanical test on plasma-sprayed unalloyed titanium coatings
• Morphology and mechanical test on thermally sprayed coatings
• Metal Analysis
• Grain size analysis
• Titanium alloy microstructure
• Material properties of Ti6AI4V
• Steel nonmetallic inclusions
• Tension testing of nickel-titanium
• Compression testing of metallic cellular materials
• Tensile properties of metallic materials
• Chemical composition, microstructure and tensile of CoCr casting alloy
• Bend test of metallic materials
• Bone Cement Analysis
• Constant amplitude, uniaxial, tension-compression uniform fatigue
• Ceramic Analysis
• Hardness of ceramics
• Mechanical properties of monolithic ceramics
• Wear properties of ceramics
• Polymer Analysis
• Accelerated aging test
• Small punch test
• Tensile test
• Density test
• Wear properties of polymeric materials
• Corrosion Test
• Accelerated intergranular corrosion
• Passivation testing
• Surface Texture Assessment
• Scaffold Permeability Determination
• Chemical Analysis
• Trace element analysis
• Spectroscopy (ICP-AES, ICP-MS, AES)
• SEM/EDS
• Positive material identification
• Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
• Carbon/sulfur/nitrogen/oxygen/hydrogen determination
• RoHS compliance testing
• Wet chemistry
• Packaging Test
• Package material testing
• Accelerate aging testing

STEMart provides a variety of testing services to answer the questions about material composition, mechanical properties, susceptibility to corrosion and fracture resistance. If you want to learn more detail about our service, or would like to consult with the experts at STEMart, please feel free to contact us.