Service
Materials, Metallurgy and Failure Analysis Consulting
A failure investigation is only useful if it changes a specification, a process or a supplier. We connect the fracture surface back to the decision that caused it.
The situation
A component fails in the field. The laboratory report names the mechanism but stops there. What the business needs is the design, material, process or supplier decision that produced the mechanism — and the corrective action that closes it.
Typical assignments
- Material selection and grade benchmarking
- Metallurgical and polymer failure investigation
- Welding, brazing, bonding and joining process review
- Heat-treatment and surface-engineering optimisation
- Mechanical, fatigue, creep, ageing and environmental test planning
- Microstructure, hardness, fractography and NDT interpretation
- Rubber-to-metal and polymer-metal interface analysis
- Supplier material qualification and specification development
Typical deliverables
- Failure mechanism and root-cause report
- Material and process specification
- Corrective-action and validation plan
- Test and inspection matrix
- Supplier qualification criteria
Accredited testing is arranged through qualified partner laboratories. Axion Synergetics provides the investigation design, interpretation and corrective-action engineering.