UQ Materials Performance is a professional consultancy business based at the University of Queensland, St.Lucia, Brisbane. Our expertise centres on materials and metallurgical engineering, failure analysis, durability and degradation of metals & polymers. We maintain close relationships with key research centres within the University, notably the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis (CMM) and the Cooperative Research Centre for Cast Metals Manufacturing (CAST CRC), giving us access to a broad range of expertise and equipment.

UQMP offers consultancy services catering to a wide variety of industries including:

• mining and mineral processing 
• oil & gas, chemical process, power generation
• manufacturing, transport (rail, marine, road, air)
• construction and architectural
• water & waste water, local government
• legal and insurance professions.

Our services are most often used when advice is needed on equipment degradation and failure — both in determining the causes of unexpected failures and in longer-term programs of equipment life improvement.  We provide consultancy services in the areas of

• metallurgical failure investigations (fracture & fatigue, corrosion, wear, thermal and mixed-mode failures)
• abrasive wear mitigation
• expert witness and forensic engineering services and
• microscopy and materials testing & evaluation