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• 2400 square foot facility with secure, high-bay warehouse space

• Metallurgical laboratory with modern Nikon and Zeiss microscopes and Buehler metallography preparation equipment

• Extensive photographic facilities specializing in the highest quality documentation of field work and in-house investigations.

• Four-position direct-tension hydrogen-charging test machine for wire testing

• Wire torsion test machine with data acquisition

• Computerized data acquisition systems for instrumented testing

Professional access to the analytical facilities at the University of Florida Major Analytical Instrumentation Center (MAIC), a state-of-the-art surface science center

• Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) including Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS)

• X-ray and Photoelectron Microanalysis

• X-ray diffraction analysis

• Residual stress analysis

• Surface and bulk chemical analysis

• Small particle analysis

In addition, LEC mainstains relationships with ISO 9000 certified testing laboratories with broad ranges of analytical and mechanical testing capabilities.