The answer is that "it depends". Do you know what the coating is?
The XRF alloy analyzers used for PMI have an interaction volume that they sample from. I've found that thin samples, for instance, will pick up a little excess iron from the table that I test them on. In the end, it comes...
I'm a metallurgist at a company that makes very large cast parts for high temperature applications. With the exception of some odd brazed applications, the heat treating we do is primarily PWHT. Upper management has decided that our facility needs to obtain the capability to Normalize and...
I am a metallurgist with 4.5 years of experience, and for the last 8 months, I've been managing the met-lab at a large automotive component manufacturing plant. The lab checks the quality of induction hardened and carburized parts at machine set-up and regular production checks. I also do the...
As a disclaimer, I'm not a particularly experienced engineer, and I primarily joined this forum to ask questions about engineering and lurk in the metallurgy section. However, in my lurking in all sorts of places on this site, I couldn't help but see this thread pop up a bunch over the past few...
