Positive Material Identification (PMI)

Partek’s portable equipment allows the company to conduct  ASTM Grade Identification and Grade Analysis at your job site.

Partek’s portable equipment allows the company to conduct
ASTM Grade Identification and Grade Analysis at your job site.

With over 30 years of metallurgical testing experience and an extensive metallurgical laboratory, Partek can provide Positive Material Identification (PMI) and Grade Identification at our laboratory or customer job site.

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PMI

Partek’s spectrometer detects wave lengths of carbon to provide full characteristics of:

  • Carbon & Alloy Steels
  • Stainless Steels
  • Aluminum Alloys
  • Nickel Base Alloys
  • Tool Steel

Grade Identification

Partek performs hardness and chemical analyses to identify any specific ASTM/API grade material.

Field Metallographic Replication

Partek uses a nondestructive sampling procedure that records and preserves the topography of a metallographic
specimen to determine the stress limits of metals. Our field metallographic replication services are especially
useful to the fabrication industry for rolling metals.

Microhardness Testing

  • Vickers
  • Knoop

Macrohardness Testing

  • Rockwell
  • Brinell

Metallographic Examination

Photographic Archival Equipment

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Vickers, 400x magnification

Vickers, 400x magnification

Knoop, 400x magnification

Knoop, 400x magnification

Rockwell

Rockwell

Brinell

Brinell