A CorrView ^® monitor which has corroded through to indicate an alarm condition may also provide valuable insight into the reason for its failure. Its value may therefore extend past the function of just a corrosion monitoring device.

     Attached to its forward surface will exist hard evidence regarding the type of corrosion involved, and whether the failure is due to generalized corrosion, pitting, galvanic, microbiological, or some other corrosion mechanism. Some evidence of deposits, corrosion products, chemical by-product, and any microbiological content will remain, and may even be captured through the penetration of the forward wearable surface into the interior cavity.

     A thorough metallurgical and microbiological examination of a spent CorrView ^® monitor therefore offers a valuable first step to identifying and solving any corrosion problem, and may suggest other forms of testing or investigation to pursue.

     CorrView Internation offers a complete destructive lab analysis of any worn CorrView ^® monitor. In addition to this follow-up testing, CVI also offers a full range of metallurgical and laboratory services including:

• Material failure analysis
• Fatigue and stress analysis
• Material characterization
• Water analysis
• Corrosion deposit analysis
• MIC identification
• True DNA analysis identifying microbiological samples
• Tensile, yield, impact, and fatigue strength
• Corrosion mechanism analysis
• Steel corrosion vulnerability
• Tensile, yield, impact, and fatigue strength