Rickard Specialty Metals and Engineering Non-destructive and Destructive Testing

Rickard Specialty Metals and Engineering Non-destructive and Destructive Testing

Rickard Specialty Metals and Engineering provides technical metals engineering expertise on all high performance alloys for the aerospace, chemical processing, and any engineered environment requiring high quality and high performance  metal applications.

Rickard Specialty Metals and Engineering provides destructive and non-destructive testing services: Chemical analysis of metal, mechanical testing, metallographic testing, analysis of metal and metal material certification.

Rickard Specialty Metal and Engineering provides chemical analysis testing, hardness testing (ASTEM18), and tensile properties (ASTM E8).  Combining these three testing procedures provides an excellent baseline to discover if the lot is uniform in composition and is uniform in hardness. Depending on the application, there may be other properties, such as corrosion resistance (ASTEM B117), case depth (SAE J423), or microstructure (ASTM E407), or plating thickness (ASTM B568).

Chemical Analysis is an inexpensive method for analyzing most aluminum, carbon steel, low ally steel, cast iron, superalloy, and stainless steel materials.

Mechanical testing measures the strength and ductility of the material. Hardness testing is also useful to correlate with tensile strength and can be done with smaller samples. Brinell Hardness (ASTM E10) uses the largest sample and is useful for non-uniform materials. Rockwell Hardness (ASTM E18) has a larger range and uses less material.

The microstructure of metal (ASTM E407) is useful to reveal information about the processes performed on the material; heat treatment, forming, forging, extrusion, cold and hot rolling, threading, heading, and drawing.

Failure analysis can provide a complete picture. Scanning Microscopy (SEM) of a fracture surface can identify the facture point, propagation and speed of propagation. A complete picture history detailed with full documentation is available on all Rickard materials.