Sample Preparation By Precision Cutting
Precision saws are used to cut samples, ranging from large to delicate, as the first step of metallographic mount preparation.
Automated Polishing of Metallographic Mounts
Polishing the samples allows for elucidation of the microstructure of the sample using optical or scanning electron microscopy.
Inspection and Imaging of Metallographic Mounts
High end optical microscopes are used to characterize microstructure of specimens and metallographic mounts.
Optical Micrographs
Left image: Cold-sprayed Cr coating on Zr alloy cladding used for Westinghouse's accident tolerant fuel.
Right image: Zr alloy cladding exposed to a hydride etch, showing hydriding in the matrix.
Right image: Zr alloy cladding exposed to a hydride etch, showing hydriding in the matrix.
Microstructural Inspection of Additively Manufactured Components
Left: : ASTM E-112 grain size measurements done on additively manufactured fuel filter component
Right: Porosity analysis in an AM component
Right: Porosity analysis in an AM component
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