service offerings
related to materials

• Design of welding consumable (wire/flux) composition
  • Ferrous
    • Ferritic steels
    • Stainless steels
    • High-temperature steels
    • High-performance steels
  • Nonferrous
    • Aluminum
    • Nickel base superalloys
• Design of material/process combinations for good weldability
  • Cracking susceptibility evaluation – vare-strain testing
  • Material susceptibility evaluation – gleeble thermal simulation
• Design of weldments for improved performance at low-temperature service
• Design of weldments for improved performance at high-temperature service
• Design of corrosion resistance weldments
• Design of surface coatings
  • Wear / erosion resistance
  • High- and low-temperature corrosion resistance
  • Oxidation resistance
  • Coking resistance
• Design of impact resistance welds
• Evaluation of material phase stability
  • Measurement of time-temperature-transformation diagrams
  • Measurement of continuous cooling / heating transformation diagrams
• Evaluation of hydrogen embrittlement in welds
• Evaluation of corrosion resistance of welds
• Evaluation of welding consumable performance and property
• Evaluation of material degradation due to welding
• Evaluation of mechanical heterogeneity
  • Automatic hardness mapping & analysis
  • Wide range of hardness tests
  • Small-scale tensile & charpy testing
• Fundamental understanding of weld microstructure evolution
• Effect of welding processes on health
• Failure analysis of welds/joints
• Plastics, adhesives
• Characterization of weld microstructure with advanced tools (TEM, SEM, OM and Neutron/X-ray diffraction)