E&S Consulting, Inc.

Metallography

In-House Service

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Metallography is a technique of mounting, grinding, polishing, and often etching metal samples. Metallography is often used to examine the grain size and structure of metal samples.  

crack 
- Metallography indicated the failure to be a crack from stress concentration in this corner.



base metal
- Metallography  was used in this case to view grain size.

- SEM photo of polished and etched aluminum sample at 1000X.