Metallographic Specimen Preparation: Optical and Electron Microscopy

✍ Scribed by Delmar V. Miley, Arthur E. Calabra (auth.), James L. McCall, William M. Mueller (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

/.letallography is much more than taking striking pictures at high magnifications or polishing and etching specimens in such a way that no scratches can be seen. Basically, metallography is the physical metallurgist's most useful and most used tool for studying metals. Although it is perhaps his oldest tool, it certainly is not likely to become obsolete. Rather, the continued demands that have been placed upon materials have required more detailed charac­ terizations of their microstructures and this, in turn, has re­ quired the metallographer to develop new techniques to make these characterizations. Not too many years ago, the metallographer had only optical microscopes with which to examine his specimens. Now he has elec­ tron microscopes, scanning electron microscopes, and a whole host of instruments which were unknown to him only a relatively few years ago. This has forced him to learn not only how to use these new instruments and how to interpret the information that they provide but it also has made him develop new techniques for preparing the samples for examination.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
A Review of Specimen Mounting Methods for Metallography....Pages 1-40
Abrasive Cutting in Metallography....Pages 41-54
The Use of Wire Saws for Metallographic Sectioning....Pages 55-68
Electric Discharge Machining....Pages 69-76
Diamond Compounds for Polishing Metallographic Specimens....Pages 77-94
Linde Alumina Abrasives for Metallographic Polishing....Pages 95-107
The Evaluation of Final Polishing Abrasives....Pages 109-120
Mounting, Lapping and Polishing Large Sizes and Quantities of Metallographic Specimens....Pages 121-128
Techniques of Specimen Preparation for Metallography Using a New and Unique Automated Polishing Process....Pages 129-142
Mechanical Preparation of Gd 3 Ga 5 0 12 and Various Electronic Materials by Vibratory Polishing Techniques....Pages 143-153
Magnetic Etching with Ferrofluid....Pages 155-177
Decorative Etching....Pages 179-206
Practical Applications of Cathodic Vacuum Etching....Pages 207-232
Metallographic Methods Applied to Ultrathinning Lunar Rocks, Meteorites, Fossils, and Other Brittle Materials for Optical Microscopy....Pages 233-249
The Metallographic Sample Preparation of Fiber-Reinforced Composites....Pages 251-273
Plutonium Metallography....Pages 275-282
On the Use of Electron Beams to Characterize the Microstructure of Radioactive Materials....Pages 283-296
Specimen Preparation Techniques for Scanning Electron Microscopy....Pages 297-306
Electropolishing of Thin Metal Foils....Pages 307-331
Preparation of Samples for Electron Microscopy by Ion Micromilling....Pages 333-348
Back Matter....Pages 349-358

✦ Subjects

Metallic Materials