subject: Give Your Industrial Production That Extra Edge! [print this page] Materials analysis could be very basic as in an analytical laboratory where the material is analyzed for establishing its composition. Such an analysis is chemical in nature. Materials analysis could go deeper as when use is made of sophisticated equipment such as Scanning Electron Microscope or Gas Chromatography. Optical Microscopes could be used in cases besides Spectroscopy. In these refined cases it's sought to define the internal microstructure and its composition at the micro level. It maybe required in such cases to find out the grain size or establish the extent of cold working or make an assessment of the porosity. With such equipment it maybe possible to assess the type of failure or the manner in which a fracture has occurred at the intercrystalline boundary level.
