Techniques of specimen preparation for metallography: grinding, mechanical polishing, electropolishing, etching. Etchants for various alloys. Metallographic sample preparation of ferrous and nonferrous specimens for optical microscopy. Microstructural examination and identification of phases in various ferrous and nonferrous alloys. Quantitative metallography. Indexing of powder X-Ray diffraction patterns. Demonstrations of thermal analysis and SEM & EDAX.

Experiments in Metallography Lab: Preparation of metallographic samples; Quantitative metallography; Observation of microstructures of standard ferrous and nonferrous samples; Powder XRD – indexing of diffraction peaks; Thermal Analysis; SEM & EDAX