What we can Provide
CONSULTING SERVICES
- Interpretation of test results.
- Interpretation of standards and specifications, and guidance on applicability.
- Test plan development to meet particular specifications and standards.
- Test plan development for failure analysis.
- Test results analysis in failure analysis.
- Training in standard test methods.
- Training in specific test methods.
- Control charts development.
- Uncertainty budgets development.
- Materials Selection
- Materials Testing & Evaluation
- Materials Specifications
- Testing per ASTM Standards
- Microstructure Analysis
- Chemical Analysis & Materials Identification
- Welding and Weld Evaluations
- Heat Treat Evaluations
- Failure Analysis
- Quality Management System setups
- Compliance with ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 17025
- Metallurgical Laboratory Management
- Others – includes guidance in the following specialties; Optical Emission Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis.
CONTRACT SERVICES
- Contract Metallurgist
- Contract Metallographer
- Contract Testing Witness
- Contract Metallurgy Lab Advisory
- Contract Failure Analyst
- Contract Metal Alloy Chemist
- Contract SEM/EDS Specialist
- Contract Quality Management Systems Specialist
- Contract Safety Management Systems Specialist
- Contract Metallurgical Laboratory Hazards Specialist
WITNESS & AUDITING SERVICES
- Witnessing mechanical testing including the following: Tensile testing; Hardness Testing (Rockwell, Brinell, Vickers, and Knoop), Impact testing, Bend test, Fracture test.
- Witnessing corrosion testing including the following: Susceptibility to pitting corrosion testing; Susceptibility to crevice corrosion testing; Susceptibility to Intergranular Attack.
- Witnessing chemical analysis including the following: Chemical analysis by optical emission spectrometry of various alloys; carbon and sulfur analysis by combustion; gas analysis by inert gas fusion method.
- Witnessing of failed component testing and analysis.
- Witnessing of scanning electron microscope analysis and energy dispersive spectroscopy of failed components.
- Auditing quality management systems per ISO 9001 standard.
- Auditing quality management systems per ISO 17025 standard.
- Auditing test procedures per referenced standards and specifications.
- Auditing equipment calibrations and verifications with certified reference materials.