Industries Served
Ensure steel and steel alloys used in your application can tolerate intended operating environments with precision testing and engineering solutions from SGS MSi, an A2LA and ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory
A leader in the fields of metallurgical testing and failure analysis, our specialties include validating raw materials, solving production-related concerns, assessing finished and semi-finished goods, investigating product failures and performing high-end metallurgical engineering services.
SGS MSi has more than three decades of experience with materials used in steel manufacturing applications, making our specialists and chemists uniquely qualified to provide testing, analysis and certifications. We can test, examine and analyze specimens in accordance with Association of American Railroads and ASTM standards or any other industry specification or customer requirement.
Materials we analyze have undergone specialty heat treating, normalizing, stress relieving, quenching and tempering, spheroidizing and pearlite annealing, among other processes. Our team can test and analyze materials to ensure they have optimal characteristics including hardenability, machinability, grain size and porosity.
At SGS MSi, we are dedicated to providing superior testing, analysis and certification services to our customers. We use industry-leading equipment backed by regular calibration records. For each test, traceable and repeatable documentation detailing test type, parameters and data obtained is provided.
Our highly trained team performs the following examinations for steel manufacturing applications:
- Jominy
- Microcleanliness
- E45 Inclusion Rating
- Charpy Impact
- Hardness
- Microhardness
- Tensile
- Decarburization
- Mechanical
- Bend
- Chemical Analysis
- Corrosion
- Coating Weight
- Grain Size
- Case Depth
- Free Ferrite
- Plating Thickness
- Sulfur Print
- Surface Roughness
- Macroetch
- Deep Etch
- Grain Flow
SGS MSi analyzes the following material types:
- Plain Carbon
- Steel alloy steel
- Continuous cast billets
- Bloom steel
- Strand cast steel
- Ingots hot rolled bar
- Hot rolled rod
- Microalloy steel
- Cold Finished bar
- Cold Drawn bar
- Re-bar
- Semi-finished steel
- Boron steel
- Resulfurized steel
- Rephosphorized steel
- Leaded steel
- Cold heading quality steel
- Bearing quality steel
- Aircraft quality steel
- Merchant quality steel
- Special bar quality steel
- Hot dipped galvanized steel
- Cold rolled lamination steel
Steel Manufacturing Test Methods
Steel Manufacturing Methods & Specifications- The following is a listing of specifications that are in accordance with our A2LA and ISO accreditation.
| ASTM A29 | Standard Specification for General Requirements for Steel Bars, Carbon and Alloy, Hot-Wrought | |
| ASTM A108 | Standard Specification for Steel Bar, Carbon and Alloy, Cold-Finished | |
| ASTM A36 | Standard Specification for Carbon Structural Steel | |
| ASTM A1040 | Standard Guide for Specifying Harmonized Standard Grade Compositions for Wrought Carbon, Low-Alloy, and Alloy Steels | |
| ASTM A576 | Standard Specification for Steel Bars, Carbon, Hot-Wrought, Special Quality | |
| ASTM A242 | Standard Specification for High-Strength Low-Alloy Structural Steel | |
| ASTM A529 | Standard Specification for High-Strength Carbon-Manganese Steel of Structural Quality | |
| ASTM A516 | Standard Specification for Pressure Vessel Plates, Carbon Steel, for Moderate- and Lower-Temperature Service | |
| ASTM A570 | Standard Specification for Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Sheet And Strip, Structural Quality | |
| ASTM A588 | Standard Specification for High-Strength Low-Alloy Structural Steel, up to 50 ksi [345 MPa] Minimum Yield Point, with Atmospheric Corrosion Resistance | |
| ASTM A606 | Standard Specification for Steel, Sheet and Strip, High-Strength, Low-Alloy, Hot-Rolled and Cold-Rolled, with Improved Atmospheric Corrosion Resistance | |
| ASTM A607 | Standard Specification for Steel, Sheet and Strip, High-Strength, Low-Alloy, Columbium or Vanadium, or Both, Hot-Rolled and Cold-Rolled (Withdrawn 2000) | |
| ASTM A618 | Standard Specification for Hot-Formed Welded and Seamless High-Strength Low-Alloy Structural Tubing | |
| ASTM A633 | Standard Specification for Normalized High-Strength Low-Alloy Structural Steel Plates | |
| ASTM A656 | Standard Specification for Hot-Rolled Structural Steel, High-Strength Low-Alloy Plate with Improved Formability | |
| ASTM A690 | Standard Specification for High-Strength Low-Alloy Nickel, Copper, Phosphorus Steel H-Piles and Sheet Piling with Atmospheric Corrosion Resistance for Use in Marine Environments | |
| ASTM A709 | Standard Specification for Structural Steel for Bridges | |
| ASTM A715 | Standard Specification for Steel Sheet and Strip, High-Strength, Low-Alloy, Hot-Rolled, and Steel Sheet, Cold-Rolled, High-Strength, Low-Alloy, with Improved Formability (Withdrawn 2000) | |
| ASTM A808 | Standard Specification for High-Strength, Low-Alloy Carbon, Manganese, Columbium, Vanadium Steel of Structural Quality with Improved Notch Toughness (Withdrawn 2005) | |
| ASTM A812 | Standard Specification for Steel Sheet, High-Strength, Low-Alloy, Hot-Rolled, for Welded Layered Pressure Vessels | |
| ASTM A841 | Standard Specification for Steel Plates for Pressure Vessels, Produced by Thermo-Mechanical Control Process (TMCP) | |
| ASTM A871 | Standard Specification for High-Strength Low-Alloy Structural Steel Plate With Atmospheric Corrosion Resistance | |
| ASTM A568 | Standard Specification for Steel, Sheet, Carbon, Structural, and High-Strength, Low-Alloy, Hot-Rolled and Cold-Rolled, General Requirements for | |
| ASTM A1008 | Standard Specification for Steel, Sheet, Cold-Rolled, Carbon, Structural, High-Strength Low-Alloy, High-Strength Low-Alloy with Improved Formability, Required Hardness, Solution Hardened, and Bake Hardenable | |
| ASTM A653 | Standard Specification for Steel Sheet, Zinc-Coated (Galvanized) or Zinc-Iron Alloy-Coated (Galvannealed) by the Hot-Dip Process | |
| ASTM A662 | Standard Specification for Pressure Vessel Plates, Carbon-Manganese-Silicon Steel, for Moderate and Lower Temperature Service | |
| ASTM A678 | Standard Specification for Quenched-and-Tempered Carbon and High-Strength Low-Alloy Structural Steel Plates | |
| ASTM A738 | Standard Specification for Pressure Vessel Plates, Heat-Treated, Carbon-Manganese-Silicon Steel, for Moderate and Lower Temperature Service | |
| ASTM A6 | Standard Specification for General Requirements for Rolled Structural Steel Bars, Plates, Shapes, and Sheet Piling | |
| ASTM A255 | Standard Test Methods for Determining Hardenability of Steel | |
| ASTM E112 | Standard Test Methods for Determining Average Grain Size | |
| ASTM E23 | Standard Test Methods for Notched Bar Impact Testing of Metallic Materials | |
| ASTM E18 | Standard Test Methods for Rockwell Hardness of Metallic Materials | |
| ASTM E10 | Standard Test Method for Brinell Hardness of Metallic Materials | |
| ASTM E8 | Standard Test Methods for Tension Testing of Metallic Materials | |
| ASTM A370 | Standard Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products | |
| SAE/USCAR 7 | Deembrittlement Verification Test | |
| SAE/USCAR 8 | Grain Flow Pattern for Bolts and Screws | |
| ASTM E415 | Standard Test Method for Analysis of Carbon and Low-Alloy Steel by Spark Atomic Emission Spectrometry | |
| ASTM E1019 | Standard Test Methods for Determination of Carbon, Sulfur, Nitrogen, and Oxygen in Steel, Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt Alloys by Various Combustion and Inert Gas Fusion Techniques | |
| ASTM E1409 | Standard Test Method for Determination of Oxygen and Nitrogen in Titanium and Titanium Alloys by Inert Gas Fusion | |
| ASTM E1941 | Standard Test Method for Determination of Carbon in Refractory and Reactive Metals and Their Alloys by Combustion Analysis | |
| ASTM E1447 | Standard Test Method for Determination of Hydrogen in Reactive Metals and Reactive Metal Alloys by Inert Gas Fusion with Detection by Thermal Conductivity or Infrared Spectrometry | |
| ASTM E2371 | Standard Test Method for Analysis of Titanium and Titanium Alloys by Direct Current Plasma and Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry (Performance-Based Test Methodology) | |
| ASTM E3 | Standard Guide for Preparation of Metallographic Specimens | |
| ASTM E407 | Standard Practice for Microetching Metals and Alloys | |
| ASTM E381 | Standard Method of Macroetch Testing Steel Bars, Billets, Blooms, and Forgings | |
| ASTM A262 | Standard Practices for Detecting Susceptibility to Intergranular Attack in Austenitic Stainless Steels | |
| ASTM G28 | Standard Test Methods for Detecting Susceptibility to Intergranular Corrosion in Wrought, Nickel-Rich, Chromium-Bearing Alloys | |
| ASTM G48 | Standard Test Methods for Pitting and Crevice Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steels and Related Alloys by Use of Ferric Chloride Solution | |
| ASTM E45 | Standard Test Methods for Determining the Inclusion Content of Steel | |
| ASTM E1245 | Standard Practice for Determining the Inclusion or Second-Phase Constituent Content of Metals by Automatic Image Analysis | |
| ASTM E2283 | Standard Practice for Extreme Value Analysis of Nonmetallic Inclusions in Steel and Other Microstructural Features | |
| ASTM E384 | Standard Test Method for Microindentation Hardness of Materials | |
| ASTM E1077 | Standard Test Methods for Estimating the Depth of Decarburization of Steel Specimens | |
| SAE J403 | Chemical Compositions of SAE Carbon Steels | |
| SAE J404 | Chemical Compositions of SAE Alloy Steels | |
| SAE J410 | High Strength, Low Alloy Steel | |
| SAE J1268 | Hardenability Bands for Carbon and Alloy H Steels | |
| SAE J423 | Methods of Measuring Case Depth |