Excellence Through Research

Our goal is to solve manufacturing, design, service and maintenance problems with the highest standard of engineering technology combined with laboratory support.

In combination with government sponsored research in areas of alloy design, processing, and fabrication, LRA Laboratories stays at the frontier of technology with the use of advanced equipment including IMMA, TEM, SEM and X-ray imaging and analysis.

Laboratory Facilities

LRA has established a national reputation for utilizing both conventional and unique test methods to rapidly identify, analyze and solve problems. RSL™ ISL Labs is a completely equipped lab providing mechanical testing (impact, fracture, fatigue), metallography (sample prep, macro-/micro-photography, microhardness), fractography (SEM X-ray microprobe, image analysis) and environmental effects (hydrogen embrittlement, stress corrosion cracking). Specializing in failure analysis and R&D programs, LRA uses the latest laboratory equipment including:

• Hydraulic actuated closed loop computer controlled fatigue machine
• Finite element analysis
• Electrochemical corrosion (Klscc)
• SEM / color graphics
• X-ray, microprobe
• Tensile/fracture toughness
• Hydrogen embrittlement
• Computer controlled data acquisition and reduction
• Quantitative fractography, stress estimates
• Particle analysis, wear
• Life prediction analysis
• Environment/fatique
• Torque/tension of fasteners

CLIENTS & APPLICATIONS

Supertanker Props

Dept. of Transportation - Trains

Dept. of Energy - Windmills

Dept. of Interior - Offshore Platforms

Coast Guard Icebreakers

Bay Bridge - San Francisco, California

U.S. Navy - Marine Designs

U.S. Medical - Artificial Heart Valves