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Coating Analysis:
ATRONA Testing Laboratories is capable of performing many types of coating and
plating examinations and analyses including plating thickness measurements.
Here is a list of issues related to coatings that we can assist you with:

Adhesion issues related to coatings
Failure analysis of coatings
Zinc Phosphate coating weight analysis
Galvanized coating weight analysis
Zinc coating analysis }Galvannealed coating analysis
Adhesion Testing }Identification of coatings

Any plating or coating thickness can be measured using image analysis and measurements reported with photomicrographs. This will insure proper compliance with thickness specification and the consistency of this coating thickness in various locations on the same part. This is typically performed through destructive testing by metallography, however, if the coating thickness is too thin to measure at 1000X using a microscope we can perform thickness measurements using the scanning electron microscope at magnifications close to 100,000X. Some coatings consist of multiple layers. We can perform measurements of those layers and scan the individual layers and color code them for chemical composition identification.