Metallographic Specimen Preparation: Optical and Electron Microscopy

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