Lou Raymond & Associates is a a professional consultant corporation providing failure analysis, life prediction, and risk analysis supported by in-house laboratory facilities to Southern California. The firm has more than 25 years of experience and consulting for more than 500 clients; with an accumulated diversified knowledge in providing engineering support and high-tech laboratory services to businesses, industry, government and the legal profession. The firm is dedicated to continue providing the highest standard of technical and laboratory support for materials science to solve manufacturing, design, service and maintenance problems. In combination with government sponsored research in areas of alloy design, processing, and fabrication, LRA Laboratories stays at the frontier of technology with the use of advanced equipment including IMMA, TEM, SEM and X-ray imaging and analysis. LRA has established a national reputation for utilizing both conventional and unique test methods to rapidly identify, analyze and solve problems. The firm is a completely equipped lab providing mechanical testing (impact, fracture, fatigue), metallography (sample prep, macro-/micro-photography, microhardness), fractography (SEM X-ray microprobe, image analysis) and environmental effects (hydrogen embrittlement, stress corrosion cracking). Specializing in failure analysis and R&D programs, LRA uses the latest laboratory equipment including: Hydraulic actuated closed loop computer controlled fatigue machine; Computer controlled data acquisition and reduction; Finite element analysis; Electrochemical corrosion; Quantitative fractography, stress estimates; Particle analysis, wear; and Life prediction analysis.
