Polymeric materials include engineering plastics, thermosets, rubbers, soft tissues, and new interesting materials such as shape memory polymers and biodegradable polymers. All of these materials, on the microscale, consist of long macromolecules that give the materials unique and very useful properties that are significantly different than metals and ceramics. For example, polymers typically exhibit significant non-linearities in terms of their mechanical response even at body temperature.
Veryst Engineering has significant experience and expertise in experimental characterization and modeling of polymers for design and failure analysis. This includes chemical and compositional analysis using micro Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), gel permeation chromatography (GPC), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and other techniques. We also routinely perform mechanical testing for material characterization and support of finite element analysis, and different surface characterization techniques to support failure analysis investigations.
