Steel Making

Chemical Analysis (ICP, XRF, GD-OES, XRD, SEM/EDS, FTIR)

• Alloy composition, identification and certification

• Coating and plating -  composition, thickness and depth profiles   

 

Mechanical Testing

• Tensile and compression testing (ASTM E8, E9, E21, E209)

• Hardness and micro-hardness (ASTM E18, E384)

• Impact test (ASTM E23)

 

Electrical Steel Testing

• Saturation polarization (Js)

• Relative permeability (μr)

• Remanence (Br) and coercivity (HcB)

• Core loss

• DC and AC (up to 10,000 Hz) B-H curve

• Epstein frame and ring samples testing for soft-magnetic materials (ASTM A343, A773)

• Franklin test (ASTM A717)

 

Microstructure Analysis

• Optical metallography, SEM and TEM analysis

• Analysis of inclusions, impurities, segregation, contamination, grain and phase microstructures, crystal orientation, macro- and micro-defects.