Mr. Mantas is a materials consultant with over 10 years of experience in materials testing and failure analysis, coming from his experience at a third-party testing and engineering consulting laboratory.  Mr. Mantas has worked on projects from the transportation, industrial, commercial, and aerospace sectors.  Mr. Mantas’s specialties include metallurgical testing and analysis, metallographic preparation, and metallography.

Mr. Mantas’s expertise includes:

• Materials: Carbon and Low Alloy Steels, Stainless Steels, Cast Iron, Aluminum Alloys, Copper and Brasses, Titanium Alloys, Superalloys, Polymers, and Ceramics
• Material testing: Visual Inspection, Hardness/Microhardness Testing, Metallography, Scanning Electron Microscopy/Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (SEM/EDS) Analysis, In situ Metallography, and Replication
• Processes: Metal Casting, Forging, Welding, Heat Treating, Plating, Powder Metallurgy, Metal Additive Manufacturing
• Industries: Foundry, Forging, Automotive, Industrial, Electric Power, Transportation, Electronics, Aerospace

Bachelor of Science, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 2013