Custom Parts Testing and Quality Assurance

Depth Profiling

GDMS enables precise depth-resolved elemental profiling, revealing compositional gradients and contamination layers in 3D printed parts. This function supports process optimization and validates surface treatments by mapping element distribution through the component’s cross-section.

Ultra-Trace Detection

GDMS detects trace elements at sub-ppm to ppb levels, providing unmatched sensitivity. It identifies critical impurities like oxygen, nitrogen, and metallic contaminants, ensuring 3D printed parts meet stringent industry standards for purity and reliability.

Bulk Composition Analysis

GDMS delivers comprehensive bulk elemental composition analysis. It verifies alloy homogeneity and confirms conformance to specified material grades, supporting certification for aerospace, medical, and automotive 3D printed components.

Rapid Multi-Element Analysis

GDMS performs simultaneous analysis of multiple elements across the periodic table. This capability accelerates quality control workflows, enabling efficient batch verification and reducing turnaround times for high-volume 3D printed part production.

Accurate Elemental Quantification

Employs high-temperature induction or resistance furnace combustion, coupled with infrared absorption, to precisely measure carbon and sulfur levels down to ppm. Guarantees compliance with stringent alloy standards for critical applications in high-performance 3D printed components.

Rapid Analysis Time

Delivers analytical results typically within 1–2 minutes per sample. Enables high-throughput quality control for production-scale additive manufacturing, facilitating real-time process monitoring and minimizing material waste.

Wide Material Compatibility

Supports diverse 3D printed metals including stainless steel, titanium, nickel-based superalloys, and aluminum alloys. Ensures adaptability across varied additive manufacturing workflows and material systems.

Traceability and Reporting

Integrates with laboratory information management systems (LIMS), providing automated data logging, traceability, and report generation. Supports regulatory compliance and customer documentation for critical industries such as aerospace and medical devices.

Internal Defect Detection

Identifies internal defects including porosity, micro-cracks, lack of fusion, and inclusions. Delivers micron-level resolution imaging, enabling precise evaluation of defect size, distribution, and location to ensure structural reliability of complex 3D printed components.

Dimensional Verification

Accurately measures internal geometries of lattice structures, cooling channels, and complex internal features. Validates conformance to CAD design specifications and supports dimensional quality control for critical applications requiring precise internal architecture.

Process Validation

Provides feedback on additive manufacturing parameters by detecting process-induced defects. Enables optimization of printing strategies, powder quality, and fusion control to achieve consistent high-quality 3D printed parts in serial production environments.

Traceable Quality Assurance

Generates fully traceable digital inspection records with quantitative defect analysis. Supports regulatory compliance, customer certification, and documentation requirements for aerospace, medical device, and automotive components produced via additive manufacturing.

Microstructure Characterization

Reveals grain structure, phase distribution, and melt pool morphology in 3D printed metals. Supports analysis of solidification patterns, identifying defects such as lack of fusion, microcracks, and phase segregation that affect mechanical properties and performance.

Porosity Evaluation

Quantifies porosity type, size, and distribution in polished cross-sections. Identifies gas pores, shrinkage cavities, and keyhole defects introduced during the additive process. Enables process optimization to achieve dense, high-integrity components.

Heat Treatment Verification

Verifies effectiveness of post-processing heat treatments by analyzing grain refinement, phase transformations, and precipitation behavior. Ensures 3D printed parts meet target mechanical properties, toughness, and fatigue resistance required for critical applications.

Process Qualification Support

Provides metallurgical evidence for process validation and qualification. Supports documentation required for aerospace, medical, and industrial certifications by demonstrating consistent microstructural quality across 3D printed production lots.

Full-Surface Dimensional Inspection

Captures complete 3D surface geometry with micron-level resolution. Detects dimensional deviations, warpage, and surface irregularities by comparing scan data to CAD models. Ensures dimensional accuracy and conformance to specifications for complex 3D printed components.

First-Article Inspection

Supports first-article inspection by providing comprehensive dimensional verification of initial production runs. Validates manufacturing processes, tooling, and print parameters, ensuring readiness for serial production of high-precision 3D printed parts.

Reverse Engineering

Enables reverse engineering by generating accurate 3D models from existing parts. Facilitates design modification, replication, and integration with CAD workflows for legacy components or parts lacking original design data.

Process Validation

Monitors dimensional consistency across production batches. Provides feedback for additive manufacturing process optimization, ensuring repeatable dimensional performance and compliance with stringent aerospace, medical, and industrial quality standards.

Surface Defect Inspection

Reveals surface defects such as micro-cracks, delamination, unmelted particles, and incomplete fusion. Provides rapid visual confirmation of surface quality and process stability, ensuring compliance with strict appearance and functional standards for high-value 3D printed parts.

Edge and Feature Verification

Examines edges, thin walls, and fine structural details. Validates geometric fidelity and dimensional accuracy for critical features, supporting functional performance and precision assembly requirements in complex 3D printed components.

Assembly Interface Inspection

Verifies mating surfaces, fits, and contact points in assembled components. Confirms dimensional compatibility and surface integrity at interfaces, supporting quality assurance for aerospace, medical, and precision industrial applications.

Failure Analysis Support

Facilitates failure analysis by examining fracture surfaces, wear tracks, and initiation points of mechanical failure. Provides critical visual data to support root cause identification and corrective actions in additive manufacturing processes.

High-Resolution Surface Imaging

Provides detailed imaging of surface morphology at nanometer to micron scale. Identifies surface defects, micro-cracks, incomplete fusion, and particle contamination. Supports optimization of printing parameters and post-processing for superior surface quality in 3D printed parts.

Microstructural Analysis

Examines grain boundaries, phase distribution, and melt pool characteristics. Supports process validation and heat treatment verification by correlating microstructure with mechanical properties and performance of 3D printed components.

Elemental Composition Analysis

Equipped with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS), SEM enables localized elemental analysis. Identifies chemical inhomogeneities, inclusions, and contamination, ensuring compliance with material specifications and enhancing material performance.

Failure Analysis Support

Facilitates failure analysis by examining fracture surfaces, crack initiation sites, and wear patterns. Provides critical insights into failure mechanisms and supports root cause investigation and corrective actions in additive manufacturing processes.

Tensile Strength Measurement

Determines ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and yield strength of 3D printed metals and polymers. Validates material selection, print process, and heat treatment effectiveness for achieving structural integrity in highly demanding aerospace and industrial components.

Elongation and Ductility Analysis

Measures elongation at break and uniform elongation with high precision. Provides key indicators of ductility and toughness, supporting qualification of 3D printed parts for applications requiring consistent and reliable deformation behavior under complex mechanical loading.

Modulus of Elasticity Evaluation

Determines elastic modulus to accurately quantify material stiffness and flexibility. Supports engineering validation for load-bearing components and precision assemblies, ensuring long-term structural compliance and optimal mechanical performance in demanding operating environments.

Process and Material Qualification

Supports additive manufacturing process validation and comprehensive material batch qualification. Ensures repeatable and traceable mechanical properties across production lots, meeting rigorous aerospace, medical device, and industrial application certification requirements with documented performance data.

Rapid Elemental Analysis

Performs fast, simultaneous multi-element analysis using optical emission spectroscopy (OES). Delivers alloy composition results within seconds, enabling real-time process control and verification of 3D printed metal parts for production efficiency and material accuracy.

Alloy Conformity Verification

Verifies that 3D printed parts meet specified alloy grade requirements by accurately quantifying elemental composition. Supports quality assurance for aerospace, medical, and critical industrial components requiring certified material conformance with documented traceability.

Trace Impurity Detection

Detects and quantifies trace impurities at ppm level, such as oxygen, sulfur, and phosphorus. Ensures material cleanliness and prevents performance degradation in demanding aerospace, medical device, and high-performance industrial applications with stringent quality requirements.

Process Stability Monitoring

Enables continuous monitoring of material composition trends across production batches. Supports process optimization and material lot qualification for additive manufacturing, ensuring consistent alloy chemistry and reproducible mechanical performance in serial 3D printed parts.

Thermal Stability Evaluation

Measures weight loss (TG) and heat flow (DSC) to evaluate thermal stability of 3D printed materials. Identifies degradation temperatures and oxidation resistance, ensuring materials meet performance requirements for high-temperature aerospace and industrial applications.

Phase Transition Analysis

Detects phase transitions such as melting, crystallization, and glass transition. Provides critical data for process optimization, ensuring thermal processing parameters are precisely controlled for consistent material properties and structural performance in 3D printed components.

Decomposition Behavior Characterization

Characterizes thermal decomposition mechanisms, quantifying weight loss and volatile release profiles. Supports material selection and qualification by verifying thermal durability and chemical stability under specific service conditions for demanding industrial applications.

Process and Material Qualification

Enables additive manufacturing process validation and comprehensive material qualification. Provides essential thermal performance data for regulatory certification and quality assurance of aerospace, medical, and advanced industrial 3D printed parts.

Dynamic Fatigue Testing

Applies controlled cyclic loading to determine fatigue life of 3D printed parts under simulated service conditions. Identifies endurance limits, crack initiation, and growth behavior, supporting qualification for aerospace, medical, and precision industrial applications requiring verified fatigue resistance.

Static Load Testing

Applies static tensile, compressive, and bending loads to evaluate ultimate strength and residual deformation characteristics. Ensures 3D printed components meet structural performance requirements and maintain integrity under specified maximum loading conditions for critical use cases.

Crack Growth Monitoring

Monitors crack initiation and propagation under cyclic loading using advanced sensing and data acquisition systems. Provides essential insights into failure mechanisms and supports optimization of design and processing parameters for enhanced fatigue performance in additive manufactured parts.

Process and Material Validation

Validates additive manufacturing processes and material batches for fatigue-critical applications. Ensures long-term reliability, regulatory compliance, and consistent mechanical performance of 3D printed parts in aerospace, medical devices, and high-performance industrial environments.

Internal Defect Detection

Detects internal defects such as porosity, inclusions, cracks, and incomplete fusion with high-energy 450KV CT. Provides micron-level resolution imaging of entire part volume, ensuring structural soundness of 3D printed components used in safety-critical aerospace and medical applications.

3D Volumetric Imaging

Generates complete 3D volumetric reconstructions of complex 3D printed parts. Enables in-depth evaluation of internal geometries, channels, lattice structures, and hidden features, supporting verification of design fidelity and process quality in advanced additive manufacturing workflows.

Dimensional Metrology

Provides non-contact dimensional measurement of internal and external geometries with micron precision. Verifies conformance to CAD models, supports first-article inspection, and enables comprehensive dimensional quality control for production-grade 3D printed parts.

Process Qualification Support

Supports process validation and qualification by providing quantitative defect and dimensional data. Enables optimization of additive manufacturing parameters and ensures repeatable part quality across production lots for certified aerospace, medical, and industrial applications.

Internal Defect Detection

Detects internal defects such as porosity, delamination, unbonded layers, and inclusions with high sensitivity. Utilizes controlled water immersion to achieve optimal acoustic coupling, enabling precise evaluation of structural integrity in 3D printed aerospace and medical components.

High-Resolution Imaging

Provides high-resolution C-scan and B-scan imaging of internal structures. Visualizes defect size, location, and distribution within complex geometries, supporting process validation and optimization for advanced additive manufacturing of critical components.

Thickness and Bond Quality Measurement

Measures material thickness, bond line integrity, and interface quality in multi-material or layered 3D printed parts. Verifies uniformity and bonding strength, ensuring conformance to design and functional requirements for demanding structural applications.

Process Qualification and QA

Supports process qualification and production quality assurance through quantitative ultrasonic data. Enables early defect detection, process optimization, and certification of 3D printed parts for aerospace, medical device, and precision industrial applications.

Trace Element Detection

Detects and quantifies trace elements at ppm to ppb levels. Ensures material purity and prevents performance degradation caused by impurities. Critical for aerospace and medical components where strict elemental specifications must be consistently achieved.

Multi-Elemental Quantification

Simultaneously analyzes multiple alloying and contaminant elements with high precision. Provides complete elemental profiles to verify alloy composition and certify material conformance for additive manufactured parts used in high-performance applications.

Process Contamination Control

Identifies contamination sources from powders, feedstock, and process equipment. Supports additive manufacturing process optimization and contamination mitigation strategies to maintain consistent material quality across production lots of 3D printed parts.

Material Certification Support

Provides certified elemental analysis data for regulatory compliance and customer certification. Essential for aerospace, medical device, and precision industrial components requiring documented conformance to stringent material specifications and quality standards.

Grain Orientation Mapping

Provides detailed mapping of grain orientation and boundary character in 3D printed materials. Supports analysis of grain refinement, anisotropy, and defect structures, critical for optimizing mechanical properties and ensuring consistent performance in structural applications.

Phase Identification and Distribution

Identifies and quantifies different crystalline phases present within 3D printed components. Provides essential data for verifying phase composition, validating heat treatment outcomes, and ensuring material consistency for aerospace and medical applications.

Texture and Anisotropy Analysis

Analyzes crystallographic texture to evaluate anisotropy in mechanical behavior. Enables optimization of build strategies and heat treatment protocols to achieve desired mechanical properties and dimensional stability in complex 3D printed geometries.

Process and Property Correlation

Correlates microstructural features with mechanical properties and process parameters. Supports data-driven optimization of additive manufacturing workflows, ensuring reproducible quality and mechanical performance across production batches for certified applications.

High-Precision Dimensional Measurement

Measures critical dimensions, geometric tolerances, and form deviations with micron-level accuracy. Verifies complex 3D printed geometries, ensuring parts meet stringent aerospace, medical, and industrial dimensional requirements and functional performance specifications.

CAD Model Comparison

Compares measured part geometry to original CAD models. Identifies deviations, dimensional trends, and out-of-tolerance features. Supports first-article inspection, process validation, and corrective action for precision additive manufacturing workflows.

Complex Geometry Verification

Accurately inspects intricate features, freeform surfaces, and internal structures of 3D printed components. Enables validation of advanced lattice structures, conformal cooling channels, and organic shapes commonly used in high-performance additive designs.

Process Capability and Quality Control

Supports statistical process control (SPC) and process capability analysis. Monitors dimensional consistency across production batches, ensuring repeatable quality and compliance with regulatory standards for aerospace, medical, and industrial 3D printed parts.