Laboratory Testing

Dennis Southam & Associates provide a variety of laboratory testing services using our wide range of testing equipment, which allows us to provide our clients with efficient, timely, and accurate in-house testing.

DSA can perform a variety of destructive testing on both new and in-service equipment, which can be used to either verify the construction of a new piece of equipment or assess an asset’s condition, respectively.

Some of the testing offered by DSA includes:

• Long term hydrotesting
• Short term burst hydrotesting
• Pipe axial tensile test
• Tensile and compressive testing of coupons
• Flexural testing of coupons
• Poisson’s ratio testing of pipes
• Coefficient of thermal expansion
• IMO jet fire testing
• DSC degree of cure testing