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Aerospace Fastener Testing

Support for your quality program
Producing fasteners for the aerospace industry requires a greater focus on quality and material selection to meet high performance expectations. A comprehensive testing program helps you to ensure that your materials and processes will meet your customers’ exacting requirements.

The approvals you need to supply aerospace and defense
Stork works with you in all phases of your product’s life cycle: from R&D support, through manufacturing and life cycle verification, to failure analysis and service. Whether you need to test individual fasteners or fastening systems, our highly trained staff is ready to help. Our chemistry department has the equipment and standards you’ll need to test the aluminum, titanium and highnickel alloys common in the aerospace industry. We can provide atmospheric heat treatment for your test samples, as well as elevated temperature tensile and stress rupture expertise.

Our engineers investigate samples in accordance with such governing bodies as:

Stork evaluates fasteners using the following methods and techniques:

Destructive Testing Services
Chemical analysis
Mechanical testing
Axial and wedge tensile testing
Double and single shear
Torque testing
Proof load testing
Metallurgical evaluation
Dimensional inspection
Failure analysis
Positive material identification
Low and high-cycle fatigue
Elevated temperature tensiles
Stress rupture testing

Nondestructive Testing Services
Fluorescent penetrant
Magnetic particle inspection
Radiography

Aerospace Specifications
Procedural Specs:
NASM 1312-10
ASTM E292 and E139
Customer Specs:
GE C50TF13
AS 7479, AS 7578,
AS 7471D, AS 4777D

Meeting Standards
Stork Materials Technology’s quality program meets the ISO/IEC Guide 17025 standards (equivalent to the relevant laboratory requirements of the ISO 9002 series of standards).

Aerospace Fastener Testing at Stork

Stork locations offering  Aerospace Fastener Testing:

  • Stork Climax Research Services - Wixom, MI

  • Stork Herron Testing Laboratories, Inc. - Cleveland, OH

  • Stork Herron Testing Laboratories, Inc. - Charlotte, NC

  • Stork Twin City Testing Corporation - St. Paul, MN

  • Stork Materials Testing & Inspection - Huntington Beach, CA

  • Stork Testing & Metallurgical Consulting, Inc. - Houston, TX


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