We have a wide ranging and diverse experience in material failure investigation and root cause analysis, from the examination of a failed bolt, to the devising and implementation of test programs on large volume, production components.
MTD offer process support and material failure investigations to a broad spectrum of industries including Aerospace, Marine, Energy, Automotive, Medical and Steel Fabrication.
Investigation of material properties is a fundamental process to augment failure analysis and provide root cause when an engineering structure or component fails.
Modern Engineering demands lightweight efficient solutions which sometimes suffer unforeseen failure and therefore require investigation to establish the root cause. Materials testing, fractography and microscopy are the key tools which enable us to provide answers
Our fully trained and experienced staff perform investigations by testing and examining the properties structures of metals and alloys, composites, ceramics and coatings. To do this we use a variety of destructive and non-destructive methods including optical microscopes and scanning electron microscopes to identify the causes of component and material corrosion, degradation and fracture (fractography).
