Metallurgy

Metallurgical Services include metallography, hardness and geometric analysis. Metallography is used to delineate macrostructure and microstructure features, which provide information on phase distribution, grain size, inclusion content, and thermo-mechanical processing history. Hardness tests have been found to be very useful for materials evaluation, quality control of manufacturing processes and research and development efforts. Geometric analysis is performed on our shaped material and DFT^® product lines as well as confirmation of our strand and cable configurations.

Applicable Equipment

• Leica DMI 5000 Inverted Metallograph
• Leica MZ6 Stereoscope
• Clemex Digital Image Analysis Software
• Wilson Rockwell Hardness-B & C Scales
• LECO Microindentation Hardness-Vickers Indenter