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Metallography laboratory

Basic Information

Name:	Metallography laboratory
Facility:	Competence Materials Characterization and Testing
Partner:	Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology (IWS)

Description

Cutting, Mounting, Grinding and Vibratory-polishing preparation
Buehler PoliMat2 polisher/ etcher for electrolytic preparation
Etch laboratory
Incident light microscope – image analysis software and image archiving
Stereo microscope, macro photography
Fully automatic and semiautomatic micro hardness testing
Universal hardness tester

Options of instrument usage

This instrument is used within a service or research collaboration.

Points of Contact

Prof. Dr. Martina Zimmermann

Web:

http://www.iws.fraunhofer.de/en/business_fields/materials_characterization/service_offers.html

Phone:

+49 351 83391-3573

Associated Services

Name	Preview	Actions
Product accompanying quality assurance
Microhardness measurements: hardness profiles, hardness measurements along isolines; Hardness mapping
Development and evaluation of process- and application-specific testing strategies
Failure and damage analysis
Metallographic, electron microscopic and microanalytical characterization of the real structure of metals, ceramics and composites
Preparation of samples for light and electron microscopy
High-resolution, imaging and analytical characterization of laser-modified edge zones, joining interfaces, thin-film systems, nanotubes and nanoparticles
Target preparation for the investigation of defects in materials and components made of metallic and non-metallic materials

Images

Preview	Description
Source: Fraunhofer IWS	Incident light microscopy

Last Update

Last updated at: 5 August 2019 at 10:37:31