Services Offered by MSI

Amongst others MSI services may comprise:

Building customer specific information systems on materials constitution
Targeted bibliographic search and literature analysis;
critical evaluation of constitutional data and phase diagrams, on request and up to date;  
Installation of customized in-house information and knowledge systems for selected materials classes including continuous updating service and link to MSIT


Calculation and simulation of unknown phase configurations employing
Critical evaluation of boundary data (1900 - up to date)
Thermodynamic calculation, extrapolation and prediction of multicomponent equilibria by computer simulation & modeling
Verification of predicted events by experiments and generation of missing data
Application of results with additional (customer) expertise

Metallurgical engineering services
Metallographic examinations and services
Caloric measurements
Microstructure examination  
Sample preparation and broad spectrum of property testing
Material selection, identification and analysis

Microscopy services
Scanning Electron Microscopy
Optical Microscopy
Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy  
Light Element Detection