Valuable insights from experts in materials and manufacturing processes
Our team of skilled metallurgical experts are here to validate and document your material to assist with quality control and help you build the best possible products. Using visual and image analysis techniques, we are able to examine and verify the microstructure constituents and conditions to determine material specification compliance to a vast array of industries. Our metallurgists and materials engineers are able to leverage extensive foundry and manufacturing knowledge to provide valuable insight regarding your incoming raw material, production processes, machining practices, heat treatment, and material finishing.
Analysis Techniques
- Cleanliness evaluation
- Degree of banding
- Dendritic arm spacing
- Depth of decarburization
- Detrimental intermetallic phases
- Ferrite determination
- Grain size
- Graphite structure evaluation
- Heat treatment evaluation
- Image analysis
- Intergranular oxidation depth
- Macroetching
- Macrostructure
- Microetching
- Microindentation hardness testing
- Microstructure
- Plating and coating layer thickness
- Porosity evaluation
Industry Standards
- ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
- ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
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ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials)
- ASTM A247
- ASTM A561
- ASTM A604
- ASTM A800
- ASTM A923
- ASTM B487
- ASTM E3
- ASTM E45
- ASTM E112
- ASTM E340
- ASTM E381
- ASTM E384
- ASTM E407
- ASTM E562
- ASTM E930
- ASTM E1077
- ASTM E1181
- ASTM E1245
- ASTM E1268
- ASTM E2109
- DIN (German Institute for Standardization)
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EN (European Standards)
- EN 1321
- ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
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JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards)
- JIS G 0555
- NADCA (North American Die Casting Association)
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Norsok (Qualification of Manufacturers of Specific Materials)
- M-650
- PED (Pressure Equipment Directive 2014/68/EU)
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SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)
- SAE J429