Profile: Innovative Test Solutions, Inc. is a mechanical engineering laboratory specializing in developing uniquely designed protocols to help identify and solve the complex engineering problems. We are an ISO 17025 accredited mechanical testing laboratory. Our expertise ranges from thermal barrier and performance surface treatment coatings, vibration, fatigue, fracture, creep/rupture, and friction & wear to applying engineering principles. We perform standard ASTM tests, develop non-standard mechanical fatigue tests, high cycle fatigue (HCF) of turbine blades for both aircraft engines & land based turbines, testing of components with fixture design & instrumentation, services for R&D programs including material selection and failure analysis. We specialize in the mechanical behavior of structures & structural material with a particular emphasis in the areas of thermal barrier coatings (TBC's), vibration, fatigue, fracture mechanics, rupture and friction & wear. We perform thermal cycling and thermal shock testing on a number of ceramics & ceramic coated metals. To support testing of these specimens, have a number of computer controlled cycling furnaces, a thermal bath and a gas flame thermal shock tester. We can perform residual stress measurements and analysis in house or at the site. We have ultrasonic horns for performing ASTM G-99 liquid erosion testing.