Metallurgical Analysis
Failure and Root Causes Analysis of Damage Mechanisms including:
- Fatigue
- Creep
- Corrosion
- Erosion-Corrosion (Flow Accelerated Corrosion)
- Pitting
- Galvanic Corrosion
- Crevice Corrosion
- Exfoliation
of Oxides
- Intergranular Attack
- Hydrogen Embrittlement
- Cavitation
- Microbiologically Induced Corrosion
Analysis of Corrosive Environments
Scale and Deposit Analysis
Testing including:
- Optical Microscopy (OM)
- Scanning Electron
Microscopy (SEM)
- Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
- Scanning Auger Micro-Analysis (SAM)
- Electron Probe
X-ray Analysis (EPA)
- Electron Spectroscopy (ESCA)
- X-ray Fluorescence (XRF)
- Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy
(EDS)
- Wave Length Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (WDS)
- X-ray and Electron Diffraction (XRD/SAED)
- Differential
Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
- Micro-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (MFTIR)
- Optical Emission Spectroscopy