Metallurgical Evaluation

Expert investigative skills and a thorough knowledge of materials and processes enable the metallurgists at M+P Labs to provide critical insight into your materials problems.

They have thorough knowledge of casting, welding, brazing, thermal spray, heat-treatment processes, as well as special expertise with superalloys, electrical conductors and composites.

Metallurgical evaluations include:

  • Castings evaluation
  • Grain size and distribution
  • Micro-indentation hardness
  • Phase segregation and identification
  • Inclusion content
  • Porosity measurements
  • Corrosion susceptibility
  • Case depth

In addition, our experts can perform destructive evaluations of welds, brazes, and solder joints to assess their integrity.

M+P Labs conducts failure analyses on a wide range of parts, products, and materials. Solving these problems requires proper materials analysis techniques and knowledgeable interpretation of measurement results.

Our skilled metallurgists also deploy M+P’s powerful scanning electron microscope (SEM) and electron microprobe, to obtain qualitative and quantitative information about the characteristics of a material or a failure.