What we do
MTIS supports corrosion and integrity decisions through materials engineering judgement: failure analysis of corroded components, identification and interpretation of damage mechanisms, and design and coordination of the testing needed to answer specific integrity questions. Our role is advisory and interpretive — we help you understand what the damage is, why it is happening, and what it means for the decisions in front of you: catastrophic-failure prevention, out-of-service equipment, life extension.
Problems we help with
- Identifying an active corrosion or damage mechanism: general and localised corrosion, pitting, crevice attack, corrosion under insulation (CUI), erosion-corrosion, environmental cracking.
- Run, repair or replace decisions after inspection findings.
- Understanding why a corrosion-control measure stopped working — coatings, inhibition, material choice.
- Materials input to life-extension and recurring-degradation decisions.
- Interpretation of inspection findings, damage-mechanism reviews and corrosion-product analysis — including materials support to risk-based inspection and fitness-for-service processes.
How we work
The same evidence-led method as our failure investigations, applied to degradation in progress: review of the asset's materials, environment and operating history; examination of damage within our inspection capability; targeted analysis coordinated through specialist partner laboratories where needed; and interpretation into a clear mechanism and practical response.
MTIS maintains limited in-house practical capability for inspection, sample preparation, secure storage and selected materials-processing/support tasks, and works with a network of specialist laboratory partners to access the most appropriate test methods for each investigation.
We advise, interpret and coordinate. We are not an inspection contractor, an NDT house or a full asset-integrity-management programme provider — and when your question needs one of those, we will say so and help you frame the scope.
What you receive
- A clear statement of the damage mechanism and the evidence behind it.
- Interpretation of what the damage means for the component or asset in its operating context.
- Practical recommendations — materials, coatings, operating or inspection changes.
- Coordinated test results interpreted into engineering language, not left as raw data.
Related reading
How a corrosion failure investigation works →
Pitting and crevice corrosion: reading localised attack →
Stress-corrosion cracking: three ingredients, one failure →