Material Chemical and Lifetime Degradation Resistance

Materials change and degrade when exposed to different environments, however the speed and mechanism with which this takes place depends on external conditions. LPD Lab Services has a great amount of experience in analysing the degradation and change of a product over its lifetime in response to various conditions, for example:

• Mechanical property and physical characteristics checks over product life cycle or after artificially replicated environmental exposure.
• Evaluation of resistance of surfaces to chemicals.
• TGA measurement of materials and chemical degradation temperatures.
• Breakdown temperatures and analysis of degradation products by pyrolysis GC-MS.
• Resistance to environmental degradation.
• Assessment of degradation cause of materials over product life.
• Gas cracking catalyst activity measured by GC.
• Optimum breakdown temperature measurements using TGA on plastics, rubbers and organic compounds.
• Analysis of hydrolysis of polymers and rubbers from UV degradation.
• UV dehydrochlorination of PVC plastic components.