What we do
MTIS helps clients select and assess materials based on performance requirements, operating environment, processing route and failure risk. Good materials selection links the application, the environment, the loading, the manufacturability and the degradation risks into one decision — and our failure-investigation experience means we select with the failure modes in mind, not just the datasheet.
The consultancy scope covers materials and process selection, design-requirement definition, project feasibility, corrosion and degradation assessment, quality assurance questions, property verification and product development support — including reverse-engineering the material and property requirements of an existing component.
When clients come to us
- Selecting materials for a new design or duty — performance, corrosion, temperature, cost.
- Substituting a material because the original is unavailable, uneconomic or failing.
- Assessing whether a proposed or supplied material is fit for the intended service.
- Understanding the processing consequences of a material choice — welding, heat treatment, forming.
- Reviewing a selection where a previous choice led to failure.
How we approach a selection
- Define the duty honestly. Loads, temperatures, chemistry, cycling, design life — including the excursions everyone hopes will not happen.
- Map the degradation risks. For each candidate material: how would it fail in this environment? Which mechanisms are credible, and what controls do they imply?
- Weigh the whole decision. Performance, availability, fabricability, inspection implications and cost — with the trade-offs stated plainly rather than hidden in a matrix.
- Verify where it matters. Where the decision hangs on a property or a composition, we design the verification test and coordinate it through the right partner laboratory.
What you receive
- A reasoned selection or assessment with the trade-offs stated plainly.
- Degradation-risk commentary: how candidate materials could fail in your environment and what controls that implies.
- Where useful, a testing or verification plan, coordinated through partner laboratories.
MTIS provides materials-selection advice and assessment. We do not act as a certification body or design authority.
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