Presents

The Center of Materials and Failure Analysis (COMFA) founded in 2004 by the Institute of Materials Science (IMS) under Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) is aiming to bring research results and scientific knowledge into applied and practical services for the Vietnamese industry.

COMFA has been supported under Vietnamese – Germany Technical Cooperation with GTZ/TUEV/DELTA, establishing its services and consultancy on materials and failure analysis.

COMFA services have been accredited by VILAS in 2009 according to ISO/IEC 17025: 2005 (accreditation number VILAS 346).

COMFA with the modern and specialized equipment and qualified staff is able to provide rapidly, professionally and efficiently the following services: 

Material Analysis: Analysis of chemical composition, mechanical properties and structure (micro and macro); Analysis of defects and inclusion chemical composition of materials/products (using SEM – EDX).

On - site services without damage of equipment part:  

·         Replica Technique is a non-destructive microstructure analysis method, which is widely used for creep assessment of the components working at high temperature and high pressure such as furnace, boiler, superheat tubes, heat exchange systems at electricity power plants, petrochemical industry etc.

·         Thickness and hardness measurement by ultrasonic technique.

·         Chemical composition analysis on spectrotest.

Failure Analysis: Analysis of reason leading to failure of equipment parts/plant components.

                            And elaboration of a remedy recommendation.

Advice an improvement of mechanical product quality through production process diagnosis.

Condition Assessment using Replica Technique and on – site hardness measurement in order to predict safe operational time of the components working at high temperature and high pressure.

Analysis, Control and Consultancy of boiler feed and boiler water in order to enhance production safety and  efficiency of boiler with working pressure up to 30 bar.

Training on water chemistry and corrosion for boiler, analysis of chemical composition, hardness and impact measurement, structure analysis.

To meet customer requirements, COMFA is upgrading constantly its service capacity, cooperating with partner institutions in Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and Germany and carrying out research projects as well.