Material Selection
EMTEC is well-versed in engineering analyses to select materials for products, components, and structures. Our engineers work with clients to understand performance criteria, from which materials requirements are determined. Candidate materials with appropriate properties to fulfill the requirements are proposed, and final recommendations are submitted to clients based on their needs, including cost, availability, workability, machinability, and environmental compatibility as well as strength.
Heat Treatment Specifications
The Rocky Mountain EMTEC, Inc. metallurgical engineers can help you specify the proper heat treatment for your metals and alloys to achieve the best combination of desired properties. We often work with your heat treater - whether in-house or outside - to ensure that you ask for the best heat treatment process for your needs.
Specification Reviews
EMTEC engineers are often asked to review specifications and make recommendations. We help companies prepare procurement specifications to ensure that they receive exactly what they need for goods and services when they hit the marketplace. Rocky Mountain EMTEC, Inc. also helps contractors review specifications for adequacy and appropriateness for specific applications.
Reverse Engineering
Clients frequently seek Rocky Mountain EMTEC, Inc.'s assistance in understanding how existing components are made, from what they are made, and how to characterize them in a process called Reverse Engineering. We take a product or process, and analyze it to determine how it can be duplicated or improved.
Quality Assurance and Control
Rocky Mountain EMTEC, Inc. understands the importance to manufacturers and their customers of Quality Assurance. We can help suppliers and buyers ensure the quality of the materials, products, and processes they buy and sell. Many of our clients use our services to periodically verify that the materials and products they buy or sell meet their quality standards, and to help establish those quality standards.
Protective Coatings Technology
The EMTEC engineers can work with you to select the proper protective coating for your application, and to evaluate the composition, thickness, and quality of existing coatings. We have the capability to do parts of this both in the field and in the laboratory.
Experimental & Analytical Stress Analysis
- Strain Gage
- Load Cell
- Accelerometer
We are experienced in strain gage analysis from small components to large structures, in the field and in the laboratory. EMTEC has the capability to monitor single and multiple channels of strain gages using analog devices and data acquisition equipment for computerized data storage and analysis. In addition to collecting high quality strain gage, load cell, temperature, and dynamic data, the EMTEC technical staff can provide engineering interpretations of data and results, and convey them competently and fully in a manner understandable by technical and lay audiences.
Product Evaluations
Whether you are a manufacturer, buyer, or other interested party, Rocky Mountain EMTEC, Inc. can work with you to set up and execute product evaluation and testing programs. The object of these programs may include life expectancy, durability, safety analyses, or other engineering evaluations of products on the market or prototypes headed for market.
Corrosion Evaluations
The Rocky Mountain EMTEC, Inc. engineers are frequently asked to determine the cause of corrosion to components and structures. Analyses are performed in the field and in the laboratory to identify corrosion mechanisms and the environments and chemicals that cause corrosion. EMTEC also frequently recommends ways to avoid corrosion in the future, ranging from material selection to modification of material properties and environments to protect against corrosion .
Fracture Mechanics & Fatigue Analyses
Fracture mechanics is a predictive science of understanding crack initiation and growth behavior. Based on mathematical models and material characteristics, the EMTEC engineers use Fracture Mechanics to analyze failures and make recommendations to avoid them. Similarly, the EMTEC engineers have the capability to analyze fatigue conditions, and make proper recommendations to avoid detrimental failures by progressive cracking under cyclic loading conditions.
Evaluation of Structural Materials in Old Buildings
Structural engineers and others involved in maintenance and restoration of old and historic buildings often rely upon Rocky Mountain EMTEC, Inc.?s knowledge, expertise, and analytical abilities to help them characterize structural materials. Suitable repair methods can be recommended, along with characterization of their condition and strength.
Engineering Inspection & Qualification of Tanks & Structures
The Rocky Mountain EMTEC, Inc. engineers can evaluate the condition and quality of tanks and structures using in-house inspection capabilities and outside inspection capabilities, where necessary. Our engineers can apply the provisions of codes, standards, and specifications to the inspection data to determine the adequacy of the tank or structure, and in many cases can recommend repair methods or procedures to return your structure to sound condition.
Engineering Measurements
Engineering has long been called the "Technology of Quantification." EMTEC engineers specialize in making engineering measurements of all types, especially those for which there are not simple off-the-shelf devices or methodologies.
Historical Artifact Authentication
Educational Seminars
Rocky Mountain EMTEC, Inc.'s Senior Engineers are excellent communicators and educators, with college teaching experience. We have a number of interesting and informative seminars on various aspects of engineering, products, and safety, and can work with your organization to tailor them to your needs or interests.
