Test Real Components
Measure directly on your production part. No sacrificial tensile coupons.
Additive Manufacturing
Mechanical Properties from Real 3D Printed Parts.
No Tensile Specimens. No Extra Build Jobs. Results in Minutes.
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The Problem
Why Additive Manufacturing Needs a Better Test Method.
Qualifying printed metal parts with classical destructive testing means printing extra material just to throw it away.
Every build that needs mechanical proof today drags a chain of overhead behind it: dedicated coupons, occupied build volume, machining, laboratory queues and days of waiting for answers your process needed immediately.
Traditional Qualification Workflow
Print tensile specimens
Consume build volume
Machine coupons
Wait for laboratory results
Increase qualification costs
The Advantage
Why AM Engineers Choose Imprintec.
Four reasons teams move part qualification from the tensile lab onto the part itself.
Faster Qualification
Mechanical properties within minutes instead of waiting days for destructive testing.
Lower Testing Costs
Reduce material usage, machining, laboratory work and testing effort.
Save Valuable Build Volume
No need to print additional tensile specimens that occupy expensive machine capacity.
Case Study
Real AM Case Study
See how Imprintec optimized L-PBF print parameters while dramatically reducing qualification effort.
- Real industrial application
- Process parameter evaluation
- Yield Strength & Ultimate Tensile Strength
- Process maps
- 20× lower testing cost
- 25× lower CO₂ footprint
- 5× shorter qualification time
The Method
How It Works.
Print your part, measure directly on the surface, and obtain quantitative mechanical properties in minutes. Three simple steps. No destruction. No tensile specimens.
1
Print Part
Run your normal build job. No extra coupons, no sacrificial geometry - the part itself is the specimen, as-built or post-processed.
2
Measure with Imprintec
A force-controlled indentation and optical 3D analysis of the imprint - minimally invasive, directly on the real component. Minutes per point.
3
Mechanical Properties
Quantitative material data from every measured point, ready for qualification, process tuning and simulation.
Everything You Need for Material Qualification.
Quantitative material data from every measured point - ready for qualification, process optimization and simulation.
- Yield Strength
- Ultimate Tensile Strength
- Stress-Strain Curve
- Hardening Behaviour
- Local Mechanical Properties
Local resolution
Property maps across the part - not one averaged number.
Because every measurement is local, you see how properties vary across the build plate, along the build direction or near critical features such as thin walls and lattice transitions.
That makes parameter studies, heat-treatment comparisons and supplier checks immediately visible on the component itself.
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The Comparison
Benefits for Additive Manufacturing.
Challenge
With Imprintec
Need tensile specimens
Test directly on the part
Long qualification cycles
Results in minutes
Limited build volume
No additional coupons
Expensive destructive testing
Fast localized measurements
Difficult process optimization
Immediate feedback after printing
Applications
Where AM Teams Use It.
Aerospace
Qualify flight-critical printed structures and verify properties in every build - without sacrificing build volume for coupons.
Automotive
Fast release of printed prototypes and series parts, with local property data at thin walls and load paths.
Medical
Document mechanical integrity of implants and instruments directly on the component for regulatory evidence.
Energy
Verify repair welds and printed turbine or plant components, including heat-affected and post-processed zones.
Research
Screen alloys, parameter sets and heat treatments in high throughput - many data points from few printed samples.
AM Service Bureaus
Offer customers per-build property documentation as a service differentiator - fast enough for every job.
Next step
Test mechanical properties directly on your printed parts.
Bring a real component or your toughest material question - we will show you yield strength, tensile strength and stress-strain curves measured live on the part.
Standards
A standardized method: DIN SPEC 4864 and ASTM.
Both standards describe the instrumented indentation imprint method behind every Imprintec measurement - from test execution to property evaluation. The properties you measure on printed parts stand on documented, citable ground.