Weld testing

Keighley Laboratories offers a weld testing and inspection service, including welding procedure consultancy and approval, welder qualification tests, on-site weld investigation and, through its newlyupgraded test house, a range of destructive, non-destructive and metallography testing facilities. Keighley Labs is UKAS accredited for weldment testing and certification across a growing list of professional specifications, including relevant commercial BS EN ISO and ASTM standards and aerospace primes like BAE, Airbus, Rolls Royce, Westland Helicopters, Bombardier and the CAA, with final assessment process underway for NADCAP approval.

The team tests weld coupons just millimetres thick in titanium, aluminium, nickel and cobalt alloys and other exotic metals, as well as carbon steel and stainless steel test plates several inches thick. It covers all forms of welded joint.

Weld coupons are also examined for soundness, strength and toughness