Projects Completed
Materials Selection
- Materials selection for a novel tool for thermal well monitoring
- Materials for snow plow blades
- Ground Engaging Tools: Materials and coatings
- Metallurgical investigation into aluminum tubes used in automotive manifolds
- Materials selection for valve seats used in two stroke combustion engines
Failure Analysis
- Failure study of threaded holes in a casing running tool part
- Failure analysis of downhole piping
- Failure analysis of mandrels used in casing running tools
- Failure analysis of oil and gas pipeline
- Centerline cracking of steel plates and bars
- Failure analysis of steel grader blades with brazed carbide inserts
- Failure analysis of thermowell sheaths
- Failure analysis of steering box sector shaft
- Failure analysis of gear sets
- Scanning electron microscopic study of failed valves used in two stroke combustion engines
- Surface analysis of blisters in Bundy tubes
- Scanning electron microscopy of eroded valves
- Investigation of discrepancies in the crimped joint strength of elastomer tubes as a function of curing procedure
- Failure analysis of brazing furnace guide pipes from China
- An investigation of the copper droplets on the 'Bundy' tubes
Wear/Tribology
- 17-4 PH Stainless steel: Weldability and surface engineering
- Wear mechanisms of card clothing steel combs used in textile industry
- Wear testing of valve materials
- Tribological investigation of seals used in dishwashers
- Tribological investigations of Monroe ferrule draw dies
- Wear behavior of metal forming tools
- Machining of titanium alloys
- Machinability of steel bars
- A study of abrasive wear resistance of stainless steels
- A preliminary study of metal pickup by 'swimmers' used at the 'Bundy' Tube plant
- Abrasive wear studies of bus floor materials
Corrosion
- Corrosion studies of nitrided low alloy steel
- Corrosion of street light poles
- Corrosion and erosion of oil well pipeline bends
- Amine corrosion studies
- Corrosion behavior of coated steels
General Metallurgy
- Development of a low cost weld overlay technology using tungsten free raw materials
- Design, procurement and commissioning of a metallurgy laboratory for a foundry
- Design, procurement and commissioning of a materials testing lab for metal fabrication facility
