Ensure that your product or component is safe and fit for purpose with Element’s range of accredited metallurgical testing services. From comprehensive grain analysis to detailed structural evaluations, our experts help identify flaws, check soundness, and ensure your metal materials meet the highest standards.
What is Metallurgical Testing?
Metallurgical testing examines the properties of metallic materials to determine if a particular metal is appropriate for its intended use. Used across a wide variety of industries, there are many different techniques, ranging from non-destructive to destructive testing; the type chosen typically depends on whether you are testing to prevent failure (requiring the product to remain intact), or after your part has already failed. Techniques aim to identify, confirm, and verify the properties of the metal through analysis and microscopic evaluations.
Key Benefits of Metallurgical Testing Services
- Comprehensive Range of Services: We have expansive testing methods and capabilities, from grain size analysis to fractography, ensuring a thorough understanding of your materials. Our one-stop solution to guide your materials through every stage of their life cycle.
- Aligned with Innovation: Trust us to handle the unique testing needs of advanced metals, bringing expertise to your innovations from state-of-the-art accredited laboratories.
- Industry-Centric Expertise: Our specialized labs and expert technicians ensure precise testing tailored to your sector, covering materials from carbon steels to aerospace-grade Titanium and Aluminium with ease and precision.
- Excellence in Accreditation: Our labs boast full accreditation, including UKAS, NADCAP, ISO 17025, and more - guaranteeing the highest testing standards.
- Material Preservation Assurance: Our testing methodology can minimize material loss by using smaller sample sizes and alternative non-destructive techniques, ensuring your valuable materials are preserved throughout the testing process when required.
- Testing Where You Need It: Enjoy the convenience of on-site testing or testing within our state-of-the-art metallurgy laboratories.
- Global Reach, Your Projects Scaled: Benefit from our wide-reaching presence, our global laboratories ensure we can handle projects of any size, meeting your unique demands.
Customer-Centric Excellence in Metal Testing
Assuring you with timely booking, order acknowledgments, and designated points of contact throughout testing. Receive updates tailored to your preferences. We pride ourselves on swift turnaround times and offer expedited services when time is of the essence.
Tailored Testing Solutions for Your Peace of Mind
From the moment we receive your inquiry, we identify your needs, and intended result usage, providing tailored solutions. Our flexibility extends to creating bespoke testing plans that align seamlessly with your requirements. Trust us to navigate the regulatory landscape, ensuring your materials comply with stringent industry standards for your peace of mind.
Your Metallurgical Testing Experts
Craig Brown
Principal Engineer, Metallurgy. Metallurgical Failure Analysis Expert.
READ MORE ABOUT CRAIGMetallurgical Testing Services and Capabilities
Our metallurgical testing services examine metals both above and below the surface. From grain size to coating evaluations, our Engaged Experts tackle the most challenging metallurgical questions. Many of our advanced metallurgical methods can be performed on-site or in collaboration with our experts in one of our state-of-the-art laboratories.
Some of the metallurgical testing methods include but are not limited to:
- Alloy depletion
- Alpha case evaluation
- Austenite measurements
- Carburization/depth of decarburization
- Case depth
- Casting evaluation
- Chemical analysis
- Ferrite measurements
- Fractography
- Grain size measurements
- Inclusion content
- Intergranular corrosion
- Macroscopic evaluation
- Microstructure evaluation
- On-site metallography
- Particle analysis
- Passivation
- Photomicrography
- Pitting and crevice corrosion
- Plating and coating thickness
- Recast evaluation
- Replication metallography
- Scanning Electron Microscopy / Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (SEM/EDS)
Why Choose Element
Offering industry-centric expertise from specialized laboratories and expert technicians. Our accreditations, including UKAS, NADCAP, and ISO 17025, ensure the highest metallurgical testing standards. With a wide-reaching presence, we scale to meet your unique project demands, delivering excellence every step of the way.
For more information about our metallurgical testing services or to request a quote, contact us today.
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Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
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