Metallurgy of Boilers & Pressure Vessels: AIS Metallurgical Testing

AIS Metallurgical Testing laboratory can help you with your boiler, pressure vessel or any failed equipment or part/component problems. Our metallurgical testing laboratory is well equipped and our capabilities has included refrigeration tubing to boating hardware as well as boilers and pressure vessels. AIS Metallurgical Testing can provide solutions to your equipment problems by better understanding what and why the part failed. Of course, it does not have to be a boiler tube or pressure vessel find the cause of the breakdown o f the metal.

Here are helpful question from actual customers where we helped them with their solution and they asked the following:

You are questioning whether the material or metal that was used is the metal that was specified

You have plate or pipe and need material physicals and chemicals

The welds failed catastrophically

There is corrosion next to the welds is this a problem

You are having Corrosion Problems and I don’t know why

The metal is cracking without reason

I need a metallurgical perspective of my failure

The part should have lasted longer and was not behaving as expected

I know we overheated the shell, but can we still use the shell

These few questions that are presented here represent a common thread and need, and that is metallurgical testing is can provide solutions to your problems.

Did you know - Metals like other physical materials are made of cells or grains, which can be called metal crystals. How the metallic structure is formed is determined by chemistry and heating and cooling rates when the metal is formed. Welding is very-very similar. Identification of metals cannot be done by chemistry alone because physical properties like tensile strength and yield strength and ductility are derived by the both the metals chemistry and atomic structure.

Metallurgical testing equipment with chemistry:

Tensile Tester - Full Range Compression Tester

Charpy Impact Tester

Izod Tester

Bend Test Stand

Annealing Oven

Stress Relief Oven

Hardness Testers (Field & Laboratory)

Surfacers , Grinders, Polishers, Etchants & Reagents

Carl Ziess Microscopes, 2-Digitalized Ultraphots and AO Spencer Boom Microscope and Carl Ziess Inverted (Bright and Dark Field Microscopes)

Chemical Testing Titration Method If you answered yes to any of these, then AIS Metallurgical Testing can help you. Call us at 800.249.0959