Automotive Consulting Services
MME's Birmingham, Alabama facility is accredited to ISO 17025 by A2LA, and provides a wide variety of metallurgical services, failure analysis capabilities, as well as automotive materials testing, research and consultation.
The facility is the result of the acquisition of Southern Research Automotive, an automotive materials testing laboratory that catered to the rapidly-growing automotive industry in the Southeastern U.S. for several years.
Key clients include:
- Mercedes-Benz US International, Inc.
- Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC
- ZF Lemforder
Resources
Our resources include state-of-the-art equipment, combined with an award-winning staff with over 16 years of metallurgical testing and failure analysis experience. Our laboratory can handle many materials commonly utilized by the automotive, aerospace and power generation industries, such as cast iron, carbon/stainless steels, high-temperature alloys and aluminum alloys.
Services
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Whether the need is for routine laboratory testing, professional engineering services, or a complex failure investigation that requires a multi-disciplined approach, MME Birmingham stands ready to solve your problems in a timely yet thorough manner. Capabilities at the Birmingham facility paired with our Suwanee, GA headquarters include, but are not limited to:
- Failure Analysis
- Litigation Support
- Corrosion Testing and Characterization
- Weld Evaluation
- Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
- Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS)
- Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Analysis
- Alloy Identification
- Coatings Evaluation
- Microstructure Examination
- Mechanical Testing (tensile and compression)
- Hardness/Microhardness
- Non-Destructive Testing
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
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We also offer high temperature mechanical testing (up to 4500 °F), CMM dimensional inspection, noise/vibration/harshness (NVH) and sound quality research through our strategic partnership with Birmingham-based Southern Research Institute.
For more information, or to obtain a quote on our automotive testing services, contact the our Birmingham office. You may also click here to download and print a 1-page summary (in pdf) of information on these services.
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Contact:
Tom Ackerson, P.E.
Phone: (205) 267-3003, Fax: (205) 481-4818
Metals & Materials Engineers, LLC
401 19th Street N., Suite 108
Bessemer, AL 35020