Metallography laboratory

Equipment

• Cutting and embedding machines
• Modular grinding and polishing machine
• Chemistry and etching laboratory
• Macro photography and stereo microscopy
• Inverse reflected light microscopy for structure analysis
• Image archive and analysis software
• Fully and semiautomatic micro hardness tester (Vickers, Knoop) 
• Macro-, low load- and micro-hardness testing devices
• Muffle furnace for heat treatment tests

Applications

• Sample preparation for light and electron microscopy
• Microstructural analysis of metals, ceramics, plastics and composite materials
• Microhardness measurements: hardness profiles, hardness measurements along isolines, hardness mapping
• Hardness measurements: Vickers, Brinell, Rockwell, Vickers hardness (HV0.3 - HV20)