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Advanced Materials Engineering Services

MTA Labs is a leading provider of advanced materials engineering services in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley for the high technology and process industries. Our team of expert materials scientists and engineers have decades of experience helping our clients with their most challenging problems in materials engineering, corrosion engineering, and failure analysis.

Our Services

Testing Services

We provide a wide range of testing services including:

Corrosion Testing

A broad range of testing from simple immersion to advanced AC and DC electrochemical techniques.

Mechanical Testing

Our mechanical testing services support tensile, compression, and torsion testing using low strength “load-cells” up to 500 lb.

Hardness Testing

Hardness testing of materials, particularly metals, alloys, and ceramics allows direct measure of mechanical properties.

Dye Penetrant Test

Leverages penetrating dye to find cracks in metal surfaces, welds, brazes, ceramics and polymers.

Profilometry

Uses a contact measurement technique with a diamond-tipped stylus to measure surface roughness.

Scanning Electron Microscopy

Enables routine failure analysis work and advanced including line scans, point analysis plus element mapping. 

Scanning Acoustic Microscopy

This testing utilizes an ultrasonic wave to evaluate the quality of bonding between two materials.

Optical Microscopy

Examination of mounted, ground, and polished metallographic sections enables a broad set of quality control and failure analysis.

Surface Analysis, Auger and XPS

Our broad set of surface analysis includes electron photon spectroscopy (XPS) and auger analysis.

Welding and Braze Evaluation

We provide failure analysis and first article testing across arc, MIG, TIG, electron beam, laser, and metal arc welding.

FTIR 

Our non destructive examination uses an infrared microscope to evaluate absorption bands in a molecular structure.

Failure Analysis

Our expertise has been honed through extensive experience in materials, manufacturing and industry.  This expertise is combined with thorough root cause analysis to resolve product and material failures quickly. Through visual examination, scanning electron microscopy and metallography we detail and document failure mechanisms.

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We work closely with the client throughout all stages of the analysis in order to reach failure conclusions and provide recommendations to get you back in business.

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We provide a wide variety of Failure Analysis services including:

Industries Served

Ready to learn more?

Contact us today to learn more about how MTA Labs can help your business. Our team of expert materials scientists and engineers are ready to provide you with solutions to your most challenging problems.

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