Engineering Tools and Laboratory Capabilities.

Chemical and Metallurgical Analyses Utilized for Failure Evaluation:

• Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy
• Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy (GC/MS)
• Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS)
• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
• X-ray fluorescence (XRF)
• Optical microscopy
• X-ray radiography (including computed tomography (CT))
• Metallography
• Mechanical properties testing (tensile, hardness)

Engineering analysis tools

• Flow and heat transfer analysis with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• Motion and physics simulation

Specialized test and evaluation equipment

• 3-dimensional surface profilometry
• High Speed Video
• Infrared imaging

Electrical and Measurement Equipment