New Team Member

Lee Ann Moye

Please let me introduce you to our newest team member.  Lee will be our new laboratory supervisor and project manager.  Lee comes to us from a long and successful career in many different laboratory environments and is familiar with ICP, XRD, FTIR, GCMS, SEM/EDX, OES, and XRF.  Lee will also be working with our quality department to  ensure all work performed and results sent out are accurate.  She has extensive experience managing  contract laboratories and will be a great addition to the EPI MTG team.

OTC Has Come and Gone

A bit over a month removed from this year's OTC conference we must say hi,

 and thank you to all of our existing clients that stopped by our booth, and to all of the new hands that we got to shake as well.  It was great to see/meet all of you and we look forward to working with all of you in the near future. EPI MTG is a Materials Testing and Failure Analysis Laboratory located in The Woodlands, Tx just North of Houston.  We can provide Destructive and non Destructive Testing, Mechanical Testing, Elemental Analysis (OES & SEM), X-ray Powder Diffraction (XRD), Microscopy from 6.5x on the Stereoscope up to 20,000x on the Scanning Electron Microscope.  We provide metallurgical sample preparation and polishing, along with chemical etching for microstructural analysis.  Our Engineering Department provides Finite Element Analysis and 3D CAD Drawings along with working on any and all Failure Analyses.  Again, thank you for coming by to say hi.  We hope we answered all of  your questions and if not, please feel free to call us.

info@epimtg.com

281-363-9997

Finite Element Analysis

F.E.A. is a computational analysis tool. There are three primary parts to an FEA model: The input loads on a model, the mesh of a model, and the output data of a model. FEA is used to simulate a sketch or 3D drawing of a part under some user-input loading conditions such as force, torque, heat, electricity, etc. The mesh is a subdivision that takes one large object and mathematically reduces it into hundreds or thousands of much smaller objects connected together. This allows increasingly accurate to real-life behavior in of the model. The FEA user sets up their program in such a way that it can provide results such as resulting stress through the whole model or in certain directions to look for stress concentrations, temperature distribution to look for hotspots, voltage distribution, and many others. The user has to analyze the resulting data and compare to calculations and/or empirical data to determine whether the data is accurate or the model will need further refinement. FEA can be a useful tool but one that requires some experience and verification to have confidence in the results.

Please call us at 281-363-9997 or email us at info@epimtg.com for more information.