The battle against corrosion isn't new, but each new innovation in materials or applications provides a new opportunity for material degradation and failure via corrosion, at an estimated cost to the U.S. of $276 billion a year.1 Corrosion control, corrosion engineering, and corrosion consulting must keep pace to protect our economic and public safety interests.
Element facilities are staffed with highly-qualified teams of corrosion engineers and corrosion consultants. These experts analyze and solve corrosion problems, with the aid of Element’s state-of-the-art analytical methods to evaluate your materials and products and reduce corrosion costs to your business.
Two Element laboratories specialize in high-level corrosion control support.
Element Wixom has become a dominant force in analyzing and solving corrosion problems in industries including automotive, medical, heat exchanger, chemical reactor, architectural, boiler and pipeline systems subjected to atmospheric, aqueous and other corrosive environments. The corrosion engineers and experts in Wixom are long-time leaders in materials research, from developing new alloys and improving existing ones, to enabling the successful transfer of metallurgical technology to industry. Through failure analyses, research, consulting, and legal cases, Element CRS is a major problem solver of corrosion problems worldwide, with special expertise in cases involving stress-assisted corrosion phenomena such as hydrogen embrittlement.
Element Houston has 100 years of Gulf Coast corrosion control testing and consulting experience and resources, including a full-service sour gas laboratory that meets the needs of oil, gas, chemical, and pipeline supply chain companies and their special corrosivity issues. Whether offshore, in the pipe, or at the refinery, Element TMC experts can analyze and advise businesses on materials and processes for optimum corrosion control, and pinpoint problems before they become catastrophes. Element TMC is recognized globally for the high quality and success rate of their corrosion team, and for their contributions to corrosion research and industry knowledge.
Backed by a global materials testing network
Both teams are backed by full-service, chemical, mechanical, and corrosion testing laboratories, as well as related materials services such as on-site chemical analysis and nondestructive testing, polymer, ceramic and composite testing, product and component evaluation, and paints and coatings analysis available locally or through the global Element laboratory network.
Element Corrosion Engineering and Consulting Services include:
- Corrosion prevention and control consulting
- Root cause failure analysis
- Expert witness services and litigation support, including court testimony and depositions
- Materials testing and engineering
- Material selection and performance testing
Serving materials and metals performance requirements in all industries
Industries our corrosion consultants serve include:
- Automotive and transportation
- Upstream and downstream oil & gas
- Petrochemical
- Refining
- Power Generation
- Marine
- Medical devices and instruments
- Architectural and construction
- Government and military
- Foundries, metals, and mining
- Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)
- Marine, ship and shipbuilding
- Insurance and legal professionals
Some of our projects in corrosion control and analysis:
- Failure analysis and expert witness testimony on behalf of injured client immobilized by lamp post collapse from corrosion
- Failure analysis and expert witness testimony regarding corrosion and fracture on behalf of manufacturer of truck accessory
- Failure analysis and material replacement recommendation for perforated industrial flame water heater fueled with biogas
- Expert opinion of corrosion condition of ocean vessel to secure insurance coverage
- Analysis of cracked plating that caused corrosion perforation of auto body panels
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