G.RAU Inc. Microscopy

Depth in Detail

Metallurgy is at our core – our microscopy analyzes details from macro to submicron levels.

Take a crash-course with our metallurgy and material science experts.

Our team of metallurgists and material scientists brings decades of experience dedicated to understanding the complexities intrinsic to specialty alloys. Our goal is to analyze these nuanced details to provide you with digestible insights that enable you to drive innovation. Whether you want to solve a specific challenge or refine a design, we deliver precision and expertise to uncover the answers you need.

No matter the complexity of the given program, our goal is to deliver precise, evidence-based insights to support your team to refine manufacturing processes, enhance material quality, and ensure confidence in your device performance.

Fracture and Root Cause Analyses

Fractures, Failures, and Understanding

As part of our fracture and root cause analyses, we perform microscopic-level investigations to uncover where, how, and why fractures initiate. These insights are necessary to address and can help understand the root cause of the fracture. With the use of advanced light optical and scanning electron microscopy, we thoroughly examine fracture morphologies, cracks, and deformation patterns to provide recommendations to ultimately help resolve issues and improve device performance.

Root cause analyses extend deeper into the material than just fracture locations. We conduct evaluations to help address client needs–whether the investigations evaluate unanticipated results from experiments performed at our facility, third-party laboratories, or to investigate fractures on non-clinical explants.

Manufacturing, Surface, and Microstructure Evaluations

Materials, Processes, and Precision

As part of our manufacturing, surface, and microstructure evaluations, we conduct microscopic investigations to assess the integrity, quality, and reliability of your materials and processes. These analyses provide essential insights into the melting and thermo-mechanical processing of your material, as well as the grain structure, surface characteristics, and manufacturing processes of your device. These insights aim to support the optimization of your material microstructure and help ensure your devices meet the highest performance standards.

With the use of advanced light optical and scanning electron microscopy, we thoroughly examine heat-affected zones, grain boundaries, and surface features intrinsic of medical device manufacturing. It is critical to perform these evaluations in order to refine your manufacturing processes, verify material consistency, and help ensure your device is reliability over its lifecycle.

Our expertise is designed to help support client-specific needs, whether the needs are to address challenges with process validation, assess surface or microstructural anomalies, or investigate inconsistencies. Each evaluation is tailored to align with your goals to help ensure your processes and materials are optimized for regulatory submissions and real-world applications.

Inclusion Content and Material Purity

Purity Leads to Consistency

As part of our inclusion content and material purity evaluations, we conduct microscopic-level investigations to assess the cleanliness, consistency, and reliability of your material. These analyses provide critical insights into inclusion size, type, and distribution to help evaluate your material. These analyses are influential to help characterize the durability of your device.

With the use of our light optical and scanning electron microscopes (SEM), we have decades of experience with characterization of material homogeneity, impurities, and inclusions that could impact the fatigue resistance, mechanical strength, and long-term performance of your device. These evaluations are vital to optimize material selection, verify supplier quality, and mitigate manufacturing risks.

Our specialized expertise supports your needs–whether your concerns are specific to material defects, raw materials, or the final processed material of your device. Each evaluation is tailored to your needs to help ensure your material aligns with the real-world demands of your device.

Custom Microscopy Services

Tailored Insights, Advanced Analyses

If our other offerings need to be tailored more to your needs, we also provide custom microscopy services to address the unique challenges your team may encounter. Whether you need specialized evaluations of surfaces, fractures, grain structures, or material inconsistencies, our advanced capabilities and expertise can provide the answers you need.

Our expertise enables us to configure applicable light sources, detectors, diffusers, and metallography specimen preparation methods to select optimal methodologies to meet your needs. Whether the goal is to analyze intricate surface details, detect material flaws, image fractures at high resolution, or evaluate grain structures, we tailor our process to provide you with unparalleled insights.

Custom services are ideal for unique experimental designs, investigations of unanticipated test results, or to generate detailed microscopy data to support regulatory submissions.

Surface Sciences

Fatigue Mechanics

Microscopy

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