{"id":5408,"date":"2020-03-17T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/metallographic-l-1\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:55:20","slug":"metallographic-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/metallographic-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallographic Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5408\" class=\"elementor elementor-5408\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fdda56 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2fdda56\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings='{\"jet_parallax_layout_list\":[]}'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8752e1b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8752e1b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default elementor-inline-editing pen\" contenteditable=\"true\" data-elementor-setting-key=\"title\" data-pen-placeholder=\"Type Here...\" data-gramm=\"false\" data-quillbot-element=\"nUU9YzHifnMy1pZJg7wld\">Metallographic Lab<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3f21b420 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3f21b420\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings='{\"jet_parallax_layout_list\":[]}'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-27391235\" data-id=\"27391235\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6193b9cd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6193b9cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Metallographic Lab has a long history within ASM International&rsquo;s training center, undergoing many upgrades throughout the years to align with state-of-the-art industry standards. Contributions from Allied High Tech, Buehler, and LECO,&nbsp;allow students to see a selection of the equipment available from the&nbsp;manufacturers for mounting equipment and semi-automatic grinder polishers. During a metallography lab education courses, students spend&nbsp;time&nbsp;perfecting skills discussed during lecture. Experienced instructors share their best techniques in hot and cold mounting, grinding and polishing, and etching. Grinding steps begin with fundamental hand techniques, ending with the advantages of a semi-automatic grinder\/polisher or a vibratory polisher. Students will learn what&nbsp;different etchants and methods yield the best microstructures for their material of interest. In the general lab courses, students have the choice to prepare hard, soft, ferrous, and non-ferrous alloys. Students are highly encouraged to bring their own samples.<\/p><p>Recent additions to the metallography lab include a suite of chemical analysis instruments. Elemental characterization of materials are essential for verification of alloy composition and impurities in metal alloys, especially important in the additive manufacturing process. The instruments include a&nbsp;carbon\/sulfur (CS) analyzer, an oxygen\/nitrogen\/hydrogen (ONH) analyzer, and a laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (LA-ICP-MS). The new additions augment our existing capabilities for powder characterization and enhance our ability to measure bulk chemistry.<\/p><p>The Metallographic Lab is equipped with the following:<\/p><table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" align=\"center\"><tbody><tr><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Allied High Tech<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Buehler<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Elemental Scientific Lasers (ESI)<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>LECO<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Perkin Elmer<\/strong><\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Portable Techpress 3 Mounting Press<\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">SimpliMet 4000 Mounting Press<\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">NWR-213 Laser Ablation System<\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">MX4000 Mounting Press<\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">NexION 2000 ICP Mass Spectrometer<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">2 Metprep 3 PH-3 Semi-Automatic Grinder Polishers<\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">4 Semi-Automatic Grinder Polishers &ndash; EcoMet and AutoMet Series<\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">2 PX400 and PX500 Semi-Automatic grinder polishers<\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Vacuum Epoxy Impregnation System<\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">2 Vibromet 2 Vibratory Polishers<\/span><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">CS844ES<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">ONH 836<\/span><\/p><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p><strong>Take a tour of the Metallographic Lab at ASM International World Headquarters!<\/strong><\/p><p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c06068d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c06068d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings='{\"jet_parallax_layout_list\":[]}'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a4d898f\" data-id=\"a4d898f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ecbe7cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ecbe7cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"640\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 640px; border: none; max-width: 100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"xr-spatial-tracking; gyroscope; accelerometer\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/kuula.co\/share\/7g5fH?fs=1&amp;vr=1&amp;zoom=1&amp;sd=1&amp;thumbs=-1&amp;info=0&amp;logo=-1\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"page_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5408","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"bricks_content":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - 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