Testing of Footwear & Components

TESTING (PHYSICAL LAB):


Complete Footwear, Components and allied material (Sports/Safety/Casual/Fashion/Infant etc).

  • Shoe water proofness
  • Shoe flexing at room temperature
  • Casual shoes
  • Sports/heavy duty shoes
  • Shoe flexintg at low temperature
  • Heel attachment strength Test
  • Strap attachment
  • Strength of attachment of Bows & Trims
  • Whole shoe topline strength
  • SATRA sole adhesion test
  • 16 point bondability test
  • Calibration
  • Leakage resistance
  • Visual inspection
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Soling material:


  • Specific gravity/density
  • Tensile strength & elongation at break
  • Hardness
  • Ross/bennewart flexing index at room temp
  • Ross/bennewart flexing index at low temp
  • SATRA/BATA belt flexing
  • Oil swelling
  • Compression set
  • Split tear strength
  • Die "C" tear test
  • Heat shrinkage
  • % Volatile loss
  • Abrasion
  • Bond strength (raw material)
  • Bond strength (prepared sample)
  • Light fastness
  • Dynamic water resistance (leather)
  • Grain crack index (leather)
  • Tear strength
  • Slip resistance per surface
  • Izod Impact
  • Ozone resistance
  • Up to 100 hrs for 1st sample
  • Up to 100 hrs for next 3 samples per sample
  • Up to 200 hrs for 1st sample
  • Up to 200 hrs for next 3 samples per sample
  • Chemical resistance per chemical
  • Hardness of PU foams (Seats)
Soling Material

Fasteners:


  • Resistance to repeated opening & closing
  • Lateral strength of slide fasteners
  • Strength of side fastener pullers
  • Attachment of slide fastener Top stops
  • Attachment of slide fastener Bottom stops
  • Slider locking strength of slide fasteners
  • Security of attachment of retainer to lateral load
  • Security of attachment of retainer to long Load
  • Tensile / Breaking strength
  • Tear strength
  • Peel strength (Velcro)
  • Shear strength(Velcro)
  • Corrosion (metal fasteners)
  • Eyelet attachment strength
  • Strength of fastened buckles
  • Strength of buckle and strap attachment
  • Corrosion resistance

* Ageing Tests (Heat Ageing / Wet Heat Ageing (Hydrolysis) Cold Tests / Environmental Cycling Tests / Weather o meter Tests.

Fastner

Safety / Miner Footwear:


  • All test of IS 15298
  • All test of ISO 20345
  • All test of ISO 20346
  • All test of ISO 20347
  • All test of IS 3976
Safety Minor Footwear