The quality and usefulness of micrographs depends greatly on the preparation and polishing of metallographic specimens, and the work of Leonard Samuels has been instrumental in achieving a morescientific understanding of the effects and mechanisms by which material is removed during preparation of metallographic specimens. This book provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of mechanical polishing methods.
The 4th Edition covers the advances that have been made since the 3rd Edition was published in 1982. These advances have enabled manual preparation procedures to be reassessed, with the result that considerable simplifications have become possible. Major advances have also been made in the development of semiautomatic machines and preparation procedures over the last few years with the objective of increasing productivity and improving reliability. These processes use abrasive machining devices that are significantly different from those used in manual procedures. They also are discussed, but necessarily in a more limited way than for manual procedures because less basic information is available. Other updates and clarifications have been provided throughout the book to create a complete, easy-to-use, and up-to-date information resource on this topic.
Contents:
Introduction
Sectioning and mounting
Principles of machining with abrasives
Practice of machining with abrasives
Surface damage from machining with abrasives
Non-abrasive machining
Polishing with abrasives: principles
Polishing with abrasives: surface damage
Brittle materials: principles
Principles of the design of manual preparation systems
Modifications required to manual preparation systems
Semiautomatic polishing
Glossary
Index
- Published:
- 06/30/2003
- ISBN(s):
- 0871707799
- Number of Pages:
- 400
- Note:
- This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus
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