Quantitative fractography
From roughness to toughness
Laurent Ponson and Stéphane Vernède, co-founders of Tortoise, have invented a method that deciphers the morphology of new surfaces formed by the failure of a material. The method is applicable from a small fragment (typically 1mm3) of any material.
Tortoise develops technologies for the application of the patented method in the fields of material characterization, predictive maintenance and failure analysis
Simple workflow
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Broken sample
Height map acquisition
Processing
Data display
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i-Lab 2018 Grand Prize winner
Tortoise was granted a Grand Prize in innovation competition i-Lab. The company will receive 330k€ non-dilutive grant from the French Ministère de lʼEnseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de lʼInnovation