Industries Served
We are an A2LA and ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory specializing in railway industry testing and failure analysis
Our Rail Metallurgical Testing capabilities include:
- Raw material validation
- Production issue solutions
- Finished and semi-finished good assessment
- Product failure analysis
- High-end metallurgical engineering services
With more than three decades of experience working with materials utilized for railway equipment applications, SGS MSi engineers, scientists, and technicians are exceptionally qualified to test, analyze and certify material for your project. Examinations we perform include:
- Jominy
- Microcleanliness
- E45 inclusion rating
- Charpy impact
- Hardness
- Microhardness
- Tensile
- Decarburization
- Bend
- Chemical analysis
- Corrosion
- Coating weight
- Grain size
- Case depth
- Free ferrite
- Plating thickness
- Sulfur print
- Surface roughness
- Macro etch
- Grain flow
Material destined for use on railway applications that we regularly analyze includes steel castings, forged steel, ductile iron, gray cast iron, austempered ductile iron, and rail steel. Manufacturers fabricate them into an assortment of passenger and freight train components, which include:
- Side frames
- Friction wedges
- Frame braces
- Wheels
- Rails
- Knuckles
- Yokes
- Couplers
- Side bearings
- Adapters
- Axles
- Springs
- Butt-welded rails
- Thermite-welded rails
| All AREMA | American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-way Association | ||
| ASTM E1245 | Standard Practice for Determining the Inclusion or Second-Phase Constituent Content of Metals by Automatic Image Analysis | ||
| ASTM A1 | Standard Specification for Carbon Steel Tee Rails | ||
| ASTM A504 | Standard Specification for Wrought Carbon Steel Wheels | ||
| AAR M-201 | Castings, Steel | ||
| AAR M-107 | Wheels, Carbon Steel | ||
| AAR M-208 | Wheels, Carbon Steel | ||
| AAR M-101 | Axles, Carbon Steel, Heat-Treated | ||
| AAR M-210 | Side Frame and Bolsters, AAR Approved—Purchase and Acceptance | ||
| AAR M-211 | Foundry and Product Approval Requirements for the Manufacture of Couplers, Coupler Yokes, Knuckles, Follower Blocks, and Coupler Parts |