Our metallurgy lab allows us to carry out comprehensive failure investigations to determine the main and secondary causes of a component failure. Typical tasks include visual/optical inspections, non-destructive examinations, fractographic/metallographic analyses and material testing to determine the nature of the failure, its initiation and propagation areas, microstructure, crack development, corrosion features, etc.

Failure investigations also require structural disciplines to perform stress analysis and fracture mechanic calculations. Lessons learned are directly incorporated into new developments.