Definition

Destructive Testing
In destructive testing, the objective is to understand and observe a specimen's structural performance or its behavior under different stress factors to the point it fails. These tests can run the gamut of costs, from expensive (expensive ordnance, for example) or inexpensive (mass produced items). There are various of types of destructive testing, such as stress tests, where the stability of a given object is determined; crash tests to determine the safety of particular designs; hardness tests where resistance to stress is measured; to name a few. Visually recording destructive tests often provides tremendous benefits, especially in cases where events are transpiring rapidly and where the testing is more expensive. In these cases, there is a low acceptance level for recording errors and a very high demand for extreme reliability, accuracy, and image integrity. The ability to record any event with zero data loss should be guaranteed by any system that hopes to serve as a productive recording solution in a test situation.

It is important to note that regardless of cost, it is always beneficial to be as efficient with time and resources as possible. As every dollar counts, you want to conduct the fewest tests necessary for getting the analysis you need. Where test events happen slowly, for example wear and tear testing, capturing the point of degradation that breaks a threshold of functional usability can be quite helpful for product improvement or production process change. For destructive testing incidents, the proper choice and positioning of multiple high speed cameras or high resolution cameras (or both) of different types (SDI, Camera Link, GigE Vision, IR etc.) is a key component. Being able to record and playback those sensors simultaneously and in perfect synchronicity is another key component. Coupling imagery data with other sensor data, for example, temperature, pressure, etc., to create a unified and completely correlated data set of the event is a third key component. And lastly,

being 100% certain that every pixel, in every frame, from every camera, is being recorded every time is a fourth key component.

Prolonged endurance testing under the most severe operating conditions, continued until the component, equipment, or product specimen fails (is broken or destroyed). The purpose of destructive testing is to determine service life and to detect design weaknesses that may not show up under normal working conditions. Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/destructivetesting.html#ixzz1jtV4dIIN

In destructive testing, tests are carried out to the specimen's failure, in order to understand a specimen's structural performance or material behaviour under different loads. These tests are generally much easier to carry out, yield more information, and are easier to interpret than nondestructive testing. Destructive testing is most suitable, and economic, for objects which will be mass produced, as the cost of destroying a small number of specimens is negligible. It is usually not economical to do destructive testing where only one or very few items are to be produced (for example, in the case of a building). Some types of destructive testing:

Stress tests Crash tests Hardness tests Metallographic tests

The types of Destructive are as follows; 1.) Tensile Testing 2.) Bend Testing

3.) Impact Testing 4.) Nick Break Testing 5.) Hardness Testing

To find out how strong, resilient, flexible, or long-lived a material is often requires the ultimate sacrifice: the destruction of the sample by equipment and instruments designed to precisely measure its performance in the face of an overwhelming force. Whether a sample is slowly pulled by tensile testing or subjected to sudden catastrophic impact, destructive tests can be the most economical and decisive ways to predict a material's capabilities and lifespan. NDt
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