Centre of Excellence:
• Metallurgical Failure Analysis and material characterization for increasing reliability and availability of power plants,
• Provides high-end scientific supports to Power Sector,
• The Centre is NABL Certification as per SO17025:2017,
• Centre provides recommendation for corrective actions regarding O&M, manufacturing, field welding & fabrication etc.
Facilities & Capabilities
• Scanning Electron Microscopy with EDAX along with High temperature in-situ micro tensile testing facility,
• X-ray based in-situ Residual Stress Analyzer (RSA)
• Microscopy equipment- Stereo Microscope, Inverted Metallurgical Microscope with Image Analysis Software, Automatic Micro- hardness testing machine
• Optical Emission Spectrometer -Chemical analysis of metallic materials
• Advanced Sample Preparation System-Precision Cutting, Automatic Mounting, Grinding, Polishing & Etching