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Metallographic Grinding and Polishing Guide

Learn the fundamentals of metallographic grinding and polishing, including mechanical preparation methods, grinding abrasives, polishing processes, consumable selection, surface preparation, and common polishing challenges.
Grinding and Polishing Guide
What’s the Difference Between Grinding Materials

What’s the Difference Between Grinding Materials?

Materials have different properties, meaning each has its own quirks when processing. Both in precision applications and well-regulated industries such as in medical, understanding these behaviors becomes a matter of life or death. Here are several of the typical kinds of materials used for medical products and how they are

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Metallographic Preparation of Medical Implants – Stents, Orthopedics

Metallographic Preparation of Medical Implants – Stents, Orthopedics…

Medical implants are increasingly used today, stemming from newer alloy developments and manufacturing techniques, such as additive manufacturing, necessitating a closer outlook at their microstructure usually with good mechanical strength, wear and corrosion resistant properties. Metallographic preparation of these components allows thorough inspection of microstructures, coatings (mainly hydroxyapatite) and potential

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