American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) has accredited DatapointLabs for technical competence in the field of mechanical testing (A2LA Certificate # 1242.01). DatapointLabs maintains a quality system in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025-1999. DatapointLabs operates in accordance with ISO 9001 and ISO 9002 (1994).
In recognition of the successful completion of the A2LA evaluation process, accreditation has been granted to this laboratory to perform the following tests on plastics:
- ASTM D1525: Standard Test Method for Vicat Softening Temperature of Plastics
- ASTM D1693: Standard Test Method for Environmental Stress-Cracking of Ethylene Plastics
- ASTM D2240: Standard Test Method for Rubber Property—Durometer Hardness
- ASTM D256: Determining the Pendulum Impact Resistance of Notched Specimens of Plastics
- ASTM D2990: Tensile, Compressive, and Flexural Creep and Creep-Rupture of Plastics
- ASTM D3418: Transition Temperatures of Polymers by Thermal Analysis
- ASTM D3763: High Speed Puncture Properties of Plastics using Load and Displacement Sensors
- ASTM D3835: Determination of Properties of Polymeric Materials by Means of a Capillary Rheometer
- ASTM D412: Vulcanized Rubber and Thermoplastic Elastomers-Tension
- ASTM D4812: Standard Test Method for Unnotched Cantilever Beam Impact Strength of Plastics
- ASTM D5279: Measuring the Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Plastics in Torsion
- ASTM D575: Standard Test Methods for Rubber Properties in Compression
- ASTM D5930: Thermal Conductivity of Plastics by Means of a Transient Line-Source Technique
- ASTM D6110: Standard Test Methods for Determining the Charpy Impact Resistance of Notched Specimens of Plastics
- ASTM D638: Tensile Properties of Plastics
- ASTM D648: Standard Test Method for Deflection Temperature of Plastics under Flexural Load in the Edgewise Position
- ASTM D695: Compressive Properties of Rigid Plastics
- ASTM D790: Flexural Properties of Unreinforced and Reinforced Plastics
- ASTM D792: Density and Specific Gravity (Relative Density) of Plastics by Displacement, Method A
- ASTM E831: Linear Thermal Expansion of Solid Materials by Thermomechanical Analysis
- ISO 11357-2: Plastics -- Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) -- Part 2: Determination of glass transition temperature
- ISO 11357-3: Plastics -- Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) -- Part 3: Determination of temperature and enthalpy of melting and crystallization
- ISO 11359-2: Plastics -- Thermomechanical analysis (TMA) -- Part 2: Determination of coefficient of linear thermal expansion and glass transition temperature
- ISO 11443: Plastics -- Determination of the fluidity of plastics using capillary and slit-die rheometers
- ISO 1183: Plastics -- Methods for determining the density and relative density of non-cellular plastics
- ISO 178: Flexural Properties of Unreinforced and Reinforced Plastics
- ISO 179: Determination of Charpy impact strength - Part 1: of notched specimens of plastics
- ISO 180: Plastics - Determination of Izod Impact Strength
- ISO 306: Plastics -- Thermoplastic materials -- Determination of Vicat softening temperature (VST)
- ISO 37: Rubber, vulcanized or thermoplastic -- Determination of tensile stress-strain properties
- ISO 527-1: Tensile Properties of Plastics
- ISO 604: Plastics-Determination of compressive properties
- ISO 6603-2: Plastics -- Determination of puncture impact behaviour of rigid plastics -- Part 2: Instrumented impact testing
- ISO 6721-7: Plastics -- Determination of dynamic mechanical properties -- Part 7: Torsional vibration -- Non-resonance method
- ISO 75-1: Plastics - Determination of temperature of deflection under load, Method A
