Corrosion Evaluation
Corrosion and environmental degradation are complex topics that require a fundamental understanding of the interaction of materials and their service environments. The engineers at MEE have the knowledge and experience to solve corrosion problems.
Corrosion of metallic components costs the world economy over one trillion dollars every year. The engineers at MEE have evaluated corrosion damage in a broad range of materials and service applications. This experience is essential in our support of your projects whether through failure analysis or evaluation of alternative materials for a specific application. In addition, our laboratory has facilities for corrosion testing using simulated service environments and electrochemical methods to support engineering evaluation projects. MEE brings a breadth of scientific experience paired with a state-of-the-art laboratory to support your project’s success.
Typical applications for MEE corrosion expertise:
- Inspection of stainless steel chemical process tank for pitting corrosion
- Evaluation of corrosion in copper tubing for residential water
- Failure analysis of stress corrosion cracking in brass plumbing fittings
- Analysis of pitting corrosion in implanted superelastic alloy medical device
- Galvanic corrosion of aluminum truck trailer frames
- Electrochemical corrosion testing of implantable medical devices
- Microbiologically-induced corrosion of water treatment equipment
- External corrosion of braided stainless steel flexible plumbing connector
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Featured Case Study
Graphitic Corrosion A corrosion investigation was requested for a sanitary sewer vent pipe that had been in service for approximately 40 years. The objective of the evaluation was to determine the corrosion mechanism for the pipe and possible causes of the corrosion. As such, no material specifications were available, but…