You'll be amazed at the power of a simple optical microscope: reflected, transmitted, interference (DIC) and polarized light all show complementary information.
* Everything that microstructure can tell you about a material?
* How it was made?
* How it has been treated?
* What kind of performance to expect from it?
* Why it failed or broke?
* Why it doesn't do what you thought it would?
Learn how to prepare ceramics, metals, polymers, and composites for microscopic examination. It's no longer just the same old grind ...... and wearing out your fingers. You'll learn how to mount, polish and reveal the structure of almost any material. Automatic preparation techniques make specimen preparation faster, simpler, more reproducible.
Study the macro- and microstructures of materials.
Microscopy can also be quantitative, telling you what volume fraction of fibers there are in your composite, how much pearlite is there in your steel, how wide are the vias in your IC's.
And optical microscopy is the first, and invaluable tool, in any failure analysis investigation.
PLUS ........ you choose any material/component/assembly as your term-project.
............ and, if even all that is not enough, get your FREE Metalog Guide from Struers!!
