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CONSULTANCY

Projects

Typical consultancy projects include:
  • Failure investigations
  • Expert witness
  • Materials consultant
  • Product development
  • Process development
  • Alloy selection
  • Alloy development
  • Property determination for Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
  • Quality improvement
  • Productivity improvement
  • Innovation management
  • Recruitment

Materials

Extensive materials experience includes:
  • Irons and steels, including microalloy steels
  • Aluminium, magnesium, titanium and copper-based alloys
  • Plastics and rubbers
  • Polymeric composites
  • Tribological materials, including bearings and friction materials
  • Sealing materials, including gaskets
  • Metal matrix composites
  • Engineering ceramics
  • Coatings

Processes

Comprehensive process knowledge includes:
  • Casting, including continuous and squeeze
  • Powder metallurgy, including aluminium and copper
  • Rolling, including powder
  • Forging
  • Extrusion, including continuous
  • Heat treatment
  • Injection moulding

Applications

Application experience includes:
  • Automotive: eg powertrain, valvetrain, brakes and suspension
  • Industrial: eg lifting equipment, hydraulics and tooling
  • Aerospace
  • Railway
  • Domestic products

Facilities

Extensive laboratory facilities include:
  • Reichert Polyvar Met research grade optical microscope
  • Leitz Miniload 2 Microhardness Tester
  • Leo 435VP variable pressure electron microscope
  • Oxford Instruments Isis energy dispersive x-ray analyser
  • Nicolet Impact 410 FTIR
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