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In the second half of the 19th century, a wonder material reached worldwide fame. The chilled cast iron developed by Magdeburgbased industrialist and inventor Hermann Gruson was characterized by its extraordinary wear resistance which was far superior to that of the traditional wrought steels. Chilled cast iron was in demand all over the globe as a...
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A heavy-duty gas turbine engine at the heart of a seawater desalination plant on the Arabian Peninsula exhibited multiple impact damages on their compressor airfoils that were detected during an inspection. Many blades showed heavily damaged airfoils and some even lost fractured-off parts. One moving blade in row 8 lost 50 % of its airfoil. Most co...
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OpenMicroscopyEnvironment Remote Objects (OMERO) is an open-source client-server system for archiving, visualizing and analyzing image data and associated meta-data in a repository and making the data usable in a database [1]. For this paper, OMERO has been studied as an image data repository and was selected as a central data space for metallograp...
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High strength and low density materials are needed to achieve lightweight design of components. Aluminum base metals alloyed with calcium are of potential interest because of the low density of calcium and its abundance. The additive manufacturing of dense and crack free samples out of an Al-10 wt.% Ca (Al-10Ca) alloy is presented. Both laser-based...
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Traditional metallography relies on the imaging of individual section planes. However, conclusions as to spatial shapes and microstructural arrangements can only be drawn to a limited extent. The idea to reconstruct three-dimensional microstructures from metallographic serial sections is therefore obvious and not at all new. However, the manual pro...
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Non-metallic inclusions (NMI) have a significant impact on the final properties of steel products. As of today, the scanning electron microscope equipped with energy-dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) serves as the state of art characterization tool to study NMIs in steel. The automated 2D analysis method with the SEM-EDS allows for a comprehensive ...
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Electrolytic polishing is a finishing method that removes material from a metal or alloy through an anodic dissolution process. Etching can often be performed in the same electrolyte by simply reducing the applied voltage to 10 percent of that required for polishing. Manufacturers of metallographic equipment present their products as automated. Onl...
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Two α-β brass alloys with varying Zn contents have been studied. The samples received for examination were heat-treated at 500 °C in order to conduct dezincification studies according to EN ISO 6509-1 and to measure the depth of dezincification from metallographic sections. According to the phase diagram, the α-phase content should increase as a re...
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A composite material was subjected to metallographic examination. It was manufactured by forging together different ferrous materials and nickel. This technique ranks among the Damascus techniques and is also used to manufacture so-called “krises”. A kris is a traditional dagger from Southeast Asia, particularly from Indonesia and Malaysia, manufac...
