Inspections, testing and analyses

• Non-destructive materials testing
  • Ultrasonic testing
  • Magnetic particle testing
  • Dye penetrant inspection
  • Visual inspection
  • Materials identification testing

• Mechanical-technological testing
  • Tensile testing (up to 900 °C)
  • Notched bar impact testing (-196 °C to 200 °C)
  • Hardness testing (HB, HV, HRC)
  • Bend and fold testing
  • End quench hardenability testing
  • Testing for intergranular corrosion/pitting corrosion
  • Residual stress measurement
  • Laboratory heat treatments

• Metallography
  • Microsection analysis
  • Sulphur print
  • Macroetching
  • Blue brittleness testing
  • Mobile metallography

• Chemical analyses
  • Spectrometry
  • Hydrogen determination
  • Carbon, sulphur, oxygen, nitrogen determination
  • Slag analysis