Austenite

Work-Hardened Twinned Austenite

Austenite is a non-magnetic allotrope of Iron and other alloying elements, typically Chromium, Nickel, and Manganese.  Austenite is formed during heat treating, at temperatures above 1340*F, when the Iron undergoes a transition from the Body Centered Cubic System (BCC) to the Face Centered Cubic System (FCC), changing from Ferrite to Austenite.  Austenitic Steels have better corrosion resistance than carbon steels because of the high Chromium content, that reacts with the environment to  for a thin oxide layer that protects the surface of the metal from further exposure.

Happy New Year

We at EPI Materials Testing Group wish all of our friends and clients a the great beginings to a great year.  We are starting off the year in our wonderful new facility and will soon begin adding to our collection of analytical testing equipment and machinery used in the sample prep of your samples.  All of this will give us the ability to give you the same correct and accurate results, but on a much quicker basis.  Thank you for 2013 and we look forward to working with you in 2014.

We Made It!

EPI-MTG's New Facility is Open

1146 Rayford Rd.  Spring, TX.  77386

Please come see us and help us enjoy our brand new facility!  We are very proud of it and hope that we will be able to serve you better and in a more efficient way.  Come see us and let us show you around! 

Front View Building

Large Room for Hosting Inspections with Direct Access to the Shop and the Ability to View a 60" Monitor on the SEM

Isolated SEM Laboratory with 60" Monitor

Analytical Laboratory with OES and XRD
 

Large Machine Shop