Metallography: Principles and Practice discusses metallographic techniques and their application to the study of metals, ceramics, and polymers. The book concentrates on techniques relevant to visual and light microscopy. Topics include macrostructure, specimen preparation for light microscopy, microstructure, light microscopy, hardness testing, and quantitative microscopy. An extensive collection of macrographs and micrographs is presented to illustrate the various methods discussed and to provide examples of their application to various materials. Appendices including etchants and specimen preparation procedures are included. For information on the print version, ISBN: 978-0-87170-672-0, follow this link.

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This article is a compilation of color etchants that have been developed for a limited number of metals and alloys. It describes the optical methods for producing color, such as polarized light and differential interference contrast, with illustrations. The article discusses film formation and interference techniques such as anodizing, chemical etching, and tint etching. It provides a description of reagents that deposit sulfide films and molybdate films. The article concludes with a discussion on the thermal and vapor deposition methods to produce color.

This article discusses the specimen preparation of three types of cast and wrought heat-resistant alloys: iron-base, nickel-base, and cobalt-base. Specimen preparation involves sectioning, mounting, grinding, polishing, and etching. The article illustrates the microstructural constituents of cast and wrought heat-resistant alloys. It describes the identification of ferrite by magnetic etching. The transmission electron microscopy examination of the fine strengthening phases in wrought alloys and bulk extraction in heat-resistant alloys are included. The article also reviews the gamma prime phase, gamma double prime phase, eta phase, laves phase, sigma phase, mu phase, and chi phase in wrought heat-resistant alloys.

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