MVMTC's Failure Analysis Services Limit Downtime

When your company encounters product or material failures, you need to act quickly. You can't afford prolonged production delays.

That's where the failure analysis experts of Miami Valley Materials Testing Center (MVMTC) of Tipp City, Ohio, come in. Our seasoned engineers—highly experienced in manufacturing settings—work alongside companies employing a wide variety of testing methods to find the root cause of failures, such as material defects, design deficiencies, corrosion, improper fabrication, or poor maintenance.

Our engineers then help clients find cost-effective design solutions to prevent premature product failures in the future.

As a single-source materials testing provider, MVMTC draws from a comprehensive base of the latest technology and expertise in multiple disciplines—engineering, microscopy, metallography, materials science, chemical analysis and more—to provide clients complete, cost-effective and timely failure analysis solutions. Our laboratories are accredited by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation.

While our failure analysis investigations help companies reduce downtime and a negative impact on the bottom line, our failure analysis experts also help clients prevent product failure in the first place by assisting in product design and development.

We save clients time, money and labor by getting involved at the design stage. We collaborate with our clients to identify test parameters for failure analysis simulations that we conduct in our state-of-the-art laboratories. We run failure analysis tests on prototypes, taking them to the point of failure—expected and unexpected. Our engineers and other technical staff take the information collected in these failure analysis exercises to modify and improve material selection and designs so that they will stand up to the demands and avoid failure once the product reaches the market.

MVMTC has the expert staff, equipment and capabilities to provide failure analysis for a wide variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, industrial manufacturing, medical, electronics, casting, fasteners and most any other material-driven industry. We also have expertise in testing a wide array of materials—metals, plastics, composite materials, and rubber.

We serve clients as a one-stop, cost-effective solution for material, component and product testing as we are qualified in fatigue testing, failure analysis, microhardness and macrohardness testing, OES chemistry analysis, mechanical property testing, engineering analysis, corrosion testing, tensile testing, weld analysis and nondestructive testing with methods such as radiography, magnetic particle testing, ultrasonic testing, electromagnetic testing, acoustic emission testing and penetrant testing.

Our accredited testing facilities include a metallography lab, an inverted metallograph microscope, a chemical analysis spectrometer, a universal testing system for mechanical property evaluation, a cyclic corrosion tester, a scanning electron microscope and a machine shop that allows us to prepare our own test specimens to save time in the material testing process.