Mining Industry Services
SOCOTEC provides mining industry services including consulting for the manufacturing of heavy equipment used in mining operations. Our services span across many verticals including heat treatment process improvement, welding repair and structural procedures, technical audits of foundries, casting and forging process evaluation, ITP evaluations and more.
Mining Industry Services
The mining industry is supported by highly specialized heavy equipment used in all phases of operation, from ore extraction through smelting and refining to final fabrication. Equipment manufacturers and vendors are constantly striving to improve their methods and processes to
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Produce technically superior, reliable, cost-effective components and equipment
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Eliminate costly defects and quality deviations
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Minimize risk in all phases of manufacturing
SOCOTEC offers a variety of consulting and technical support services to equipment manufacturers—foundries, forges, fabricators—to meet their objectives.
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Service offerings:
Heat Treatment Process Improvement
Welding Repair Evaluation
Foundry Auditing
Casting & Forging Reviews
ITP Evaluations
Alloy Selection
Fitness for Service Evaluations
Mining Services
Project Example: Ball Mill Gear
- Objective: Determine root cause of cracking
- Activities and Results
- Performed MT, visual inspection, stereo “in-situ” microscopy, chemical analysis, SEM, HB profile
- SEM determined that intergranular cracking nucleated during the solidification process
- Mode of Failure: Low cycle / High strength Fatigue.
- The crack propagated out of a casting discontinuity (gas porosity).
- Recommended Solutions
- Smooth out by grinding the affected zone and install remotely controlled strain gauges to evaluate crack propagation.
- Metal stitching the crack
- Objective: Determine root cause of cracking
- Activities and Results
- Performed MT, visual inspection, stereo “in-situ” microscopy, chemical analysis, SEM, HB profile
- SEM determined that intergranular cracking nucleated during the solidification process
- Mode of Failure: Low cycle / High strength Fatigue.
- The crack propagated out of a casting discontinuity (gas porosity).
- Recommended Solutions
- Smooth out by grinding the affected zone and install remotely controlled strain gauges to evaluate crack propagation.
- Metal stitching the crack
