Metallurgical Laboratory
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Laboratory capabilities - 40 different tests.
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Key Test equipment/capabilities
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- Fatigue life - 11 Amsler machines (ranging from 3k-120k max load)
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- UTM - 6 frames w/servo control (max 450K tension load)
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- Metallurgical mount press - 15 Buehler presses
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- Digital microscopes - 3 units with auto-grain measurement and cameras
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- Hydrogen embrittlement - 2 Leco 836 units with auto feed carousel
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- Coating thickness measurement - metallic and nonmetallic coatings, measured by X-ray or eddy current.
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- Stress durability frames - 50 K max load, 12 stations
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- Stress rupture frames - 2 units 20K max load
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- Salt Spray chamber - 2 units
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