Materials Laboratory and Material Analysis - Gustav Grimm Testing Technology

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Laboratory Investigations and Material Testing - Gustav Grimm Quality Assurance

Material analysis

  • Material analysis (optical emission spectroscopy F-OES) of metal samples
  • Steel, nickel and titanium alloys
  • Mobile mix-up testing (PMI) of metal samples and components
  • Steel and titanium alloys

Corrosion testing
in accordance with standards, guidelines and customer specifications such as SEP, DIN, EN, ISO, ASTM, Stamicarbon

  • IK test according to ASTM A262 E, DIN EN ISO 3651-2 (DIN 50914) and SEP 1877
  • Streicher test according to ASTM A262 B, Stamicarbon 71112 and ASTM G28 A
  • Huey test according to ASTM A262 C, DIN EN ISO 3651-1 and Stamicarbon 53961
  • Pitting test according to ASTM G48 and ASTM A923 C

Heat treatment in the laboratory furnace

  • Face quenching test according to DIN EN ISO 642 (Jominy test)
  • Simulating samples
  • Annealing
  • Solution annealing
  • Hardening
  • Tempering
  • Ageing
  • Ageing

Materials testing

  • Materials testing
  • Metallographic and light microscopic examinations according to standards, guidelines and customer specifications:
  1. Degree of purity according to DIN, ISO and ASTM,
  2. Grain size according to DIN, EN, ISO and ASTM,
  3. Microstructure e.g. ASTM A923 A and ASTM E562,
  4. Delta ferrite according to AVS D 63/50 “DeLong/Schaeffler”, “Feritscope” and fusion test,
  5. Macroscopic examinations “pickling disk”,
  6. Coating thickness/crack depth determination

Special tests

  • Mobile determination of relative permeability “Magnetoscope”
  • Mobile ferrite measurement on component “Feritscope”