Steels are widely used in a variety of engineering applications ranging from civil to aerospace and automotive industries. The simplicity to manufacture, the cost and the well-studied properties of...

Over the last few years, Additive manufacturing(AM) has been sculpting the manufacturing domain in revolutionary ways. Attracted by the various advantages including the countless design possibilities...

Titanium alloys are known for their high specific tensile strength and toughness, and corrosion resistance among non-ferrous alloys. Unlike aluminum alloys, titanium alloys are resistant to This makes...

Aluminium alloys offer light-weight solutions for structural applications making them widely used in the Aerospace and Automotive industry. Their high specific strength positions them advantageously...

Copper has been historically used by humans since tens of thousands of years ago and hence has a historical significance is the domain of metallurgy. Being a metal, whose alloys have been explored and...

Composites bring the advantages of two different material domains together. A material forms the matrix and another material forms the reinforcing phase, combinedly resulting in a composite. Depending...

Metallography of some samples (with phases of varying hardness, with coatings, with intricate contours etc) demands flat polished surfaces with no form of relief or edge rounding. However, the process...

Sectioning, or cutting, involves extracting a piece of a sample with the cross-section of interest to be polished and imaged under a microscope. For metallography, dedicated machines are available in...

During metallographic sample preparation, the cut samples are usually mounted in a resin into cylindrical shapes before polishing. While mounting may seem as an auxiliary step in sample preparation,...