Westinghouse has state-of-the-art laboratories & extensive capabilities for metallographic & ceramographic specimen preparation. These laboratories provide expert specimen preparation of challenging materials including radiological and non radiological specimens from sectioning, plating, mounting, grinding and polishing to etching and electro polishing capabilities.

We maintain well equipped laboratories for both radiological and non radiological materials. Our capabilities range from traditional metallography to automated 3D surface topographic imaging and laser confocal microscopy for surface profilometry.

Westinghouse has advanced, high throughput instrumentation for both compositional and structural characterization of radiological and non-radiological materials. Our X-ray fluorescence instrumentation can non-destructively identify alloys and perform compositional analysis as well as perform coating thickness measurements. Our X-ray diffractometer has the capability to evaluate high throughput powder and polycrystalline sample diffraction coupled with Phase ID and quantification, as well as capabilities for precision micro diffraction, thin film analysis and stress analysis.

We have state of the art electron microscopy instrumentation for detailed topographic, compositional and structural materials characterization. Our capabilities include: