Metal Product Analysis

Metal product means any manufactured metal component or finished metal product. Fabricated metal products are metal parts that are joined, shaped, or otherwise machined to form a useful product. These include rolling, punching, stamping, sintering, welding, machining and similar processes.

Fabrication is a secondary metalworking process. Primary processes involve turning raw metal materials into shapes. Metal fabricators weld extruded and molded metals together, bend and cut to size. Almost all products of primary metalworking processes require some degree of secondary processing before they can be used. For example, metal plates cannot be joined without bending the edges, punching holes or punching them, and inserting pins to join them.

Metal fabrication services require long industrial operations that include the automotive, aerospace, marine, construction, engineering, plumbing, petrochemical exploration and development, food and beverage, and commercial product industries. Fabricated metal products are the highlight of most bridges, aircraft, ships, and buildings. Smaller metal fabrications are also essential parts of water tanks, electrical cable enclosures, metal cabinets, frames, brackets, panels, outdoor grills and even sculptures.

For example, steel is the most important material that society produces industrially. Most of the finished steel products, for example plate, strip, bars, sections, wire and pipe, are converted into products for their intended application by the engineering industry, i.e. final products. Steel is often invisible as it is hidden by other materials, such as paint, plastic, concrete.

Here are some examples of steel products:

• Buildings (metal roof, steel beams, reinforcing steel)
• Vehicles (cars, trucks, trains and bicycles)
• Infrastructure (bridges, safety barriers, lighting and high voltage poles, railways)
• Art and design (sculptures and jewellery)
• Machines and tools (pressing tools, lathes, saws, drills)
• Industry (cylinders, pipes, machinery, cranes)
• Medicine (scalpels, implants, needles)
• Daily use (scissors, sink units, radiators, cutlery, pots)

Chemical analysis of metals is done to verify whether the material is suitable for its intended end use. In this context, the most common analysis methods are:

• ICP, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. This analysis is done to identify and quantify a set of chemical elements required for the analysis of metal samples. These analyzes are usually performed on liquefied samples. With this method, trace amounts and major concentrations of all elements in a sample can be determined.
• OES, optical emission spectroscopy. This analysis is a rapid method to determine the elemental composition of various metals and alloys. This method is used to detect elements present in various materials such as solids, liquids and solutions. In general, this method analyzes elements such as aluminum, silver, copper, chromium, cobalt, iron, magnesium, lead and mercury.
• Gravimetric analysis. These analysis methods are used in analytical chemistry to quantify an analyte based on the mass of a solid. For example, the amount of a chemical in an aqueous solution is evaluated by this method. The gravimetric analysis method is a quantitative chemical analysis method in which the sought ingredient is converted into a substance of known composition that can be separated from the sample and weighed.
• SEM-EDS, scanning electron microscope energy dispersive spectroscopy. In this method, the sample material is irradiated with electrons resulting in the emission of X-rays specific to the elements present.
• XRF, X-ray fluorescence. This analysis method is a non-destructive analytical method used to determine the basic composition of materials. XRF analyzers determine the chemistry of a sample by measuring the X-ray fluorescence emitted from a sample when excited by the X-ray source. This method requires a solid sample. However, some light elements such as boron and beryllium cannot be detected by this method.

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