· Highly accurate measurement of even slopes and vertical edges.

· Excellent performance on very rough surfaces.

· Robust handling of greatly varying surface reflection properties.

· Verification by optical color image.

· Optical Microscopes.

· Cross-sectional and image analysis.

· Binocular Microscopes for low magnification inspection.

· Sample Preparation.

· Abrasive Wheel sectioning.

· Semi-automated sample preparation to diamond or colloidal silica surface finish.

· On-site (in-situ) metallurgy.

· Hardness Testing.

· Vickers Macro-hardness and Micro-hardness testing

· Chemical Analysis.

· Carbon and sulfur analyzer.

· Oxygen and nitrogen analyzer.

MEIC Metallurgy Laboratory Applications and  Lab Solutions

 

We carry out customer service pertinent to materials identification, coating evaluation, and corrosion assessment.  Both low power and high power microscopy are used.  Metallographic examination and scanning electron microscopy (including energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy) is applied when required.

MEIC specializes in:

· Coatings Analysis and Assessment

· Coating Thickness

· Coating Hardness

· Coating Interface

· Coating Composition

· Corrosion Testing and Evaluation

· Material Analysis Identification (Including structural analysis, etc.)

· Mechanical micro-hardness and macro-hardness

· Failure investigations

· High resolution polymer replication of materials for in-house evaluation

· Fire evaluation (e.g. steelwork to determine damage by fire)

· Failure Investigations to components and for structures of both metallic and non-metallic materials including work involving litigation.

· Weld monitoring

· Preventative maintenance

· Non-destructive testing of welded joints

· Use of weld polymer replication and penetrant flaw detection techniques

State-of-the-art Microscopy Laboratory

Scanning Electron Microscopes: SEM (with EDX) of metallic and non-metallic materials)

3-D Optical measurement and inspection

3-D Images and profiles:

Examination of surface breaking defects, surface finish, roughness measurement, general topography, etc. on a diverse range of samples.

MEIC Metallurgical Laboratory Capabilities:

Our state of the art Metallurgical testing labs house and use numerous instruments to measure and investigate metallurgical parameters, including macro-hardness, micro-hardness, coating thickness, and fractographic examination of surfaces by SEM microscopy. The lab works closely with  clients on a personal basis to solve their problem.

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