Advanced Industrial Materials Services

Materials Engineering and Development

AIM's materials engineering services include short term solutions as well as longer term development and analysis projects. These services include:

• Making composites per customer requirements
• Making advanced materials for special applications
• Trouble shooting and problem solving
• Materials engineering consulting

We are interested in partnering and teaming with other high technology firms. Please tell us how we can assist you with your materials engineering requirements using our inquiry form.

Materials Processing and Testing

AIM provides a wide range of materials processing and testing services, plus heat treating and vacuum hot pressing:

• Materials Processing
  • Ceramic whisker synthesis
  • Powder grinding
  • Isostatic pressing
  • Sol-gel and specialty powder preparation
  • Spray drying
  • Spin coating
  
  
• Materials Testing
  • X-ray diffraction
  • Thermal expansion
  • Thermal cycle testing of components
  • Heat treating under air-reducing conditions, pressureless sintering, vacuum, and inert atmospheres and hydrogen
  • Dilatometer
  • Sintering studies
  
  
• Programmable Vacuum Hot Pressing
  • Vacuum down to 10^-6 torr range
  • Temperature up to 2200°C (programmable/controllable)
  • Programmable gas flow system with choice of gases for static or flowing inert atmospheres
  • Making materials samples, blanks, and small parts with high camber
  • Programmable/controllable pressure
  • Force to thirty tons
  • Programmable hot ejection from die

AIM will make your starting materials powders, process your materials and test them, and hot press samples and blanks for you.

Advanced Industrial Methods

AIM provides additional services based on its senior staff experience in systems engineering, operations research, mathematics, and computation in aerospace and high technology companies:

• Systems engineering, for minimizing cost and maximizing performance
• Decision support, for efficiency and cost reduction
• Mathematical modeling and analysis, fitting data to theory
• Data/error analysis and parameter estimation from indirect data
• Operations research, linear programming, dynamic programming
• Systems science techniques for analysis and modeling of systems
• Optimization of process, routing, blending, resources, etc.

Our senior staff have originated, applied, and published many effective techniques. We will be happy to take on your questions and problems. Please give us your comments on our inquiry form or send e-mail to tcaim@earthlink.net.