Metallurgy of Boilers & Pressure Vessels: AIS Metallurgical Testing

AIS Metallurgical Testing laboratory can help you with your boiler, pressure vessel or any failed equipment or part/component problems. Our metallurgical testing laboratory is well equipped and our capabilities has included refrigeration tubing to boating hardware as well as boilers and pressure vessels. AIS Metallurgical Testing can provide solutions to your equipment problems by better understanding what and why the part failed. Of course, it does not have to be a boiler tube or pressure vessel find the cause of the breakdown of the metal.

Type of question(s) asked:

• I don't think the metal is what was specified
• I have plate (or pipe) that has to be identified
• The welds failed (catastrophically)
• There is corrosion next to the welds is this a problem
• I have corrosion but I don’t know why
• The metal is cracking without reason
• I need a metallurgical perspective of my failure
• The part should have lasted longer
• I know we overheated the shell, but can we still use the shell

These questions represent the need to have metallurgical testing done.

Metallurgical testing equipment with chemistry:

• Tensile Tester - Full Range Compression Tester
• Charpy Impact Tester
• Izod Tester
• Bend Test Stand
• Annealing Oven
• Stress Relief Oven
• Hardness Testers (Field & Laboratory)
• Surfacers , Grinders, Polishers, Etchants & Reagents
• Carl Ziess Microscopes, 2-Digitalized Ultraphots (Metalligraphs) and AO Spencer Boom Microscope and Carl Ziess Inverted(Bright and Dark Field Microscopes)

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