Houston Electron Microscopy

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SEM & EDS Services

Houston Electron Microscopy, Inc. is an industrial forensics laboratory specializing in Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive Spectrometry services. Our expertise and range of experience is invaluable to our customers. Same day or next day service is available in most cases.

Materials Lab
SEM & EDS Services

Houston Electron Microscopy, Inc. is a materials laboratory specializing in Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive Spectrometry services. Same day or next day service is available in most cases.

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SEM & EDS Services
Failure Analysis

Houston Electron Microscopy specializes in failure analysis and fractography at the microstructure. Failure analysis finds the cause of failure to prevent a recurrence. Our SEM/EDS system can provide the root cause of failures by conducting a microscopic study of where failures initiate and help determine the cause or causes of failure. 

 Our expertise and range of experience in failure analysis, fractography and corrosion analysis is invaluable to our clients.

Metals fail for different reasons and in different modes. In mechanical failures, locating the origin is top priority. The origin can be found visually, but finding out the why and the cause of failure mode is where we come in to conduct failure analysis at the micro structural level. By studying the fracture surface at the microscopic level, details such as evidence of loading history, environmental effects, and or material quality can be discovered through electron fractography.

Whether you need failure analysis of metals or non-metals, our scanning electron microscopy laboratory has the sophisticated equipment and experience necessary to find answers. Same day or next day service is available in most cases.

 

Failure Analysis Modes

Fatigue Cracking

SEM examination of the fractures, wear surfaces, and corrosion deposits can lead to the cause of failure of many different metals.

Intergranular Cracking

Fracture surfaces of hard materials such as diamond aggregates (PDC) and WC can be examined for leach depth and phase distribution.

Brittle Cracking

With the Scanning Electron Microscope, coatings of any type can be examined to the finest detail for composition and morphology, thickness, porosity, layers, pinholes, etc. 

Stress Corrosion Cracking

Image of a diatom among dust particles. Our Scanning Electron Microscope system is capable of imaging at high magnification with a deep field of focus.

Failure Analysis - Plastic and non-metals

Environmental Stress

Image of a diatom among dust particles. Our Scanning Electron Microscope system is capable of imaging at high magnification with a deep field of focus.

Experience in Failure Analysis and Materials

Our primary goal is to get you the answers to your materials problems.

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