Metallurgy and Engineering
Exova provides accredited metallurgical testing
Exova has since inception supported metals manufacturers, general engineering suppliers and their associated supply chains with accredited metallurgical testing services. These clients feed products into a wide spectrum of industries including sheet & metal, coatings manufacturers, oil & gas, construction, aerospace, automotive and marine.
Much of the testing business in this sector is legislative and pre-qualification based where, for example, in the coating industry third party accreditation is required prior to start of a project or the use of a material. Our clients increasingly use quality accreditations as product differentiators to protect reputations, revenues and margins. The protection of reputation and the need to provide evidence of regulatory compliance places a premium on independent testing.
Exova’s unrivalled team of experts offers specialist testing services in this sector which focus on coatings testing, failure investigation (forensic metallurgy) and advisory services associated with the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) and welding pre-qualifications. We also offer a full range of ‘routine’ materials testing services which include mechanical, corrosion and fire testing. Our laboratories are located close to the metallurgy and engineering industries they serve in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia / Asia Pacific.
Over 2 years areas on the cable bundles were tested
The Forth Road Bridge, was originally designed to take 30,000 vehicles per day for a 120 year life span. Today, the bridge carries more than 66,000 vehicles per day with a further 10,000 expected by 2010.
In 2004 the Forth Estuary Transport Authority (FETA) conducted a major assessment of the bridge, engaging Exova’s Edinburgh laboratory to undertake all laboratory material testing and examinations; and the consultant engineering companies Faber Maunsell and Weidlinger Associates for the engineering assessments . Over a two year period 10 areas on the cable bundles were exposed for inspection and sampling.
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