2022 International Metallographic Contest
Class 1 – Light Microscopy – All Materials
First Place
Controlling Melt Pool Geometry Towards Embedding Sensors with Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Holden Hyer
Oakridge National Laboratory
Oakridge, TN
Second Place Dubose-Crouse Award
Development of a Versatile Etchant to Reveal Grain Boundaries in Aluminum Alloys
Wayne Papageorge
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Third Place
Discovering the deformation mechanism of HCP metals additively manufactured using polarized (POL) and differential interference contrast (DIC) techniques
Blanca Palacio
Florida International University
Miami, FL
Honorable Mention
Heat Tinting to Enhance Meteorite Microstructure
Derek Barnes
Product Evaluation Systems
Latrobe, PA
Class 2 – Electron Microscopy – All Materials
First Place
Metallographic Evaluation of Damaged Secondary Fuel Nozzle
Girish Shejale and Vishal Suryawanshi,
Masaood John Brown Lab
Dubai, UAE
Second Place
Effect of vanadium micro-alloying on microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of A354.0 squeeze-cast alloy
Mr. Yogendra Mahton, Mr. Mahesh Pandiripalli, and Prof. Partha Saha
Department of Ceramic Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela
Sundargarh, Odisha, India
Third Place
Microstructural Damages of Engine Run Turbine Buckets
Girish Shejale, and Darshan Ahire
Masaood John Brown Lab
Dubai, UAE
Class 3 –Student Entries – All Materials (Undergraduate Students Only)
First Place
Chick Magnet – Sounds from a Chevy Subwoofer
Henry Price, Eric Tkach, and Dr. Laura Moyer
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Second Place
The MicroAngelos: The Art and Science of Microstructures
Gabriella Moreno, Elias Roll, Hunter Johnson, and Gerald R. Bourne
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO
Third Place
An Investigation of Acoustic Guitar String Processing
Andrew Planitz
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Class 4 – Artistic Microscopy – Color
First Place
Hollow sphere of FeO and its dendritic structure
Demmys Kelsen Florentino de Sousa
SENAI/CTGAS-ER – Centro De Tecnologias Do Gás E Energias Renováveis
Laoa Nova, Natal – RN – Brazil
Second Place
Just Before Sunrise
Monika Trπbska
Laboratoria BadaÒ ìBatoryî / Research Laboratories ìBatoryî
Poland
Third Place
Peony
Xueni Huang
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
Honorable Mention
The Coppery Night (Detail)
Tobia Romano
Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy
Honorable Mention
Cast Zircaloy
Mauricio Mendes Costa
Centro Tecnológico da Marinha – DDNM – LACAM
Brazil
Honorable Mention
Cast Iron Graphite
Brian Tiell
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Class 5 – Artistic Microscopy – Black and White
First Place
Moth Fly
Sheri Neva, Eurofins – EAG Los Angeles
El Segundo, CA
Second Place
Zinc Iceberg
Monika Trπbska
Laboratoria BadaÒ ìBatoryî / Research Laboratories ìBatoryî
Poland
Third Place
At the mountains of madness
Xueni Huang
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
Honorable Mention
δ-ferrite solidification during welding of stainless steel
Amina Sriba
Research Centre in Industrial Technologies (CRTI)
Algeria
Honorable Mention
Molten Salt Corrosion Revealing Crystallographic Texture of Ni5Cr Alloys
Ho Lun Chan
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Honorable Mention
Gray cast iron edge
Demmys Kelsen Florentino de Sousa
SENAI/CTGAS-ER – Centro De Tecnologias Do Gás E Energias Renováveis
Brazil
