2023 International Metallographic Contest
Class 1 – Light Microscopy – All Materials
First Place
Tensile-Compressive Asymmetry of Wire-Arc Direct Energy Deposited
Commercially Pure Titanium by Optical Microscopy
Blanca Palacios, Tanaji Paul, Arvind Agarwal
Cold Spray & Rapid Deposition Laboratory, Mechanical and Materials Department
Florida International University
Miami, Florida
Second Place
Influence of Mg and Si integration on the microstructure of gravity-cast Al-12Ce alloys
Rahul Gope, Sourav Ganguly
Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Argul, Khordha
CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT),
Odisha, India
Third Place
Sustainable Metallographic Preparation of Continuously Cast Alloy CuSn8
Bončina Tonica
University of Maribor Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Laboratory for Materials
Slovenija
Honorable Mention
In Situ Stereomicroscopic Macroetching
Ondřej Ambrož
Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Czech Republic
Class 2 – Electron Microscopy – All Materials
First Place
Robotic Etching of Samples for Scanning Electron Microscopy
Ondřej Ambrož, Jan Čermák, Patrik Jozefovič, Šárka Mikmeková
Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Czech Republic
Second Place
Study of Intergranular Attack after Acid Exposure on GTD 111 DS Gas Turbine Bucket
Dr. Girish Shejale, Darshan Ahire
Masaood John Brown
Dubai, UAE
Third Place
Effect of Ca addition on the microstructure and corrosion behavior of AZ91-Graphene nanoplatelets nanocomposite
Sourav Ganguly
CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT)
India
Role of Mg on the microstructure of gravity-cast Al-8Ce and Al-12Ce alloys
Rahul Gope
Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Argul, Khordha,
Odisha, India
Class 3 – Student Entries – All Materials (Undergraduate Students Only)
First Place
Stuck Between a Die and a Hard Phase: An Investigation of High Pressure Die Cast 430 Stainless Steel
Jake DeCicco
Virginia Tech, Mercury Marine
Fond du Lac, WI
Second Place
Get Cracking! Reverse Engineering the Ball Mason Jar Lid
Kirsten Sjoberg and Nicholas Cheney
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Third Place
Driving Over It, A study on Gray Cast Iron Manholes and Etchants
Gavin Schmer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Waukesha, WI
Class 4 – Artistic Microscopy – Color
First Place
Crystal Bouquet
Michelle Chambers
Eurofins | EAG Laboratories
Manhattan Beach, CA
Second Place
Enchanted Etchforest
Ondrej Ambrož
Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Czech Republic
Third Place
A Symphony of Colors
Ratnadeep Samanta and Sriharitha Rowthu
Materials Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar
India
Honorable Mentions
Cratered Vantage
Chimara Stancill
Genentech & PPD, a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific
South San Francisco, CA
PEX Wave
Sheri Neva
Eurofins – EAG Los Angeles
El Segundo, CA
Additive Popsicle
Justin T. Barnes
IMR Test Labs, Curtiss-Wright
Louisville, KY
Class 5 – Artistic Microscopy – Black and White
First Place
Sand Dollar
Michelle Chambers
Eurofins | EAG Laboratories
Manhattan, CA
Second Place
Recrystallized Cotton Candy
Sheri Neva
Eurofins – EAG Los Angeles
El Segundo, CA
Third Place
Residue on a Rusted Screw
Nicole Alexander
EAG Laboratories, Los Angeles, CA
Redondo, CA
Honorable Mentions
Mite
Sheri Neva
Eurofins – EAG Los Angeles
El Segundo, CA
Infinite Halos
Justin T. Barnes
IMR Test Labs, Curtiss-Wright
Louisville, KY
Peak Structures on a Rock
Nicole Alexander
EAG Laboratories, Los Angeles, CA
Redondo Beach, CA
Strange Land
Michelle Chambers
Eurofins | EAG Laboratories
Manhattan Beach, CA
