The MEE laboratory studies composition, microstructure, and mechanical properties using a wide variety of techniques, including light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, electrochemical testing, chemical surface analysis methods, and mechanical tests.
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
Field Emission SEM (FESEM)
Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS)
Broad Beam Ion Milling
Light Microscopy
Microsectioning (Precision Cross Sections)
Metallography
Corrosion Testing
Rockwell Hardness Testing
Microhardness Testing
Tension/Compression Testing
Custom Test Design
The MEE technical staff specializes in comprehensive, root-cause failure analysis. The range of experience encompasses many types of material behavior and modes of failure, including mechanical and corrosion mechanisms, in a wide variety of metals and polymers.
Whether you are a designer of implantable medical devices, a manufacturer of electronic parts, or an engineer at a steel foundry, your projects benefit from MEE’s breadth of scientific expertise, responsiveness, thorough analysis and collaborative work style.
A metallurgical evaluation was requested to investigate the fracture of three titanium sternal plates that had failed in vivo after a shorter than expected service life.
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MEE staff captures thousands of images each year using various light microscopes and scanning electron microscopes. Most are taken for specific projects - some for the fun of it - all offer fascinating views of the microscopic world we explore daily at MEE.
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