Materials selection is an absolutely critical, but often underestimated, part of any construction or fabrication project. Proper choices in materials can make the difference between 5 and 100 years of successful service!
Our metallurgical and materials engineers have decades of experience helping select and apply the right materials for your application. The ROI on proper materials selection is enormous, dwarfing the time and cost it requires. Let our materials selection experts help you do it right!
How are materials selection and failure analysis related?
We’d say the are inversely related: good materials selection means you won’t have to do much failure analysis, and vice versa. Of course, sometimes you can’t predict everything that will occur, but proper selection and damage mechanism analysis can have an enormous impact on how many failures you experience.
How do I pick the right materials for my application?
The key to materials selection is evaluation of what’s likely to occurring in your application. For example, damage mechanism assessment is a common practice in which you can evaluate all of the potential corrosion and damage mechanisms that can occur in a facility. Using this knowledge, you can then determine the materials and inspection plans appropriately. Here are some useful materials selection guides:
- MIT Guide
- Matweb – which offers many resources
- Swagelok guide
Do you offer in-person consulting for materials selection?
Absolutely! While many of our clients are in the Texas and gulf coast region, we travel globally to help with corrosion issues of all kinds. We also offer other complimenting on-site analysis like field metallography, corrosion evaluation, and more.