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For aerospace enterprises, experienced materials testing, and metallographic support are critical. Buehler stands as your trusted partner to take science to new heights. Whether it’s metals, composites, or polymers, every material adheres to our stringent standards. Our metallurgical sample preparation equipment, coupled with an extensive range of consumables and analysis systems, ensures excellence.

Buehler understands that consistency and reproducibility are key to the aerospace industry. With our extensive experience, specialized knowledge, and robust equipment, we facilitate suppliers and manufacturers in achieving NADCAP accreditation within the aerospace sector.

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Enhance your analyses, streamline your process, and maintain the highest brand standards for your components and materials with our free to download technical articles.

Aircraft Framework

Elevate aircraft integrity and explore sample prep, material insights, and hardness testing for safer, dependable aircraft framework.

Thermal Spray Coatings

Explore vehicle body and framework metallography. Discover expert insights for superior automotive integrity through sample preparation and analysis.

Additive Materials

Embrace aerospace’s transformation and prepare for growth with additive manufacturing. Master sample prep and analysis fundamentals, including consumable selection, hardness testing, and more.

Composite Materials

Discover composite materials’ versatility in aerospace with a focus on common types and expert preparation practices.

Discovery Essentials

Dive into aerospace metallography; from fundamentals to advanced techniques. Bonus article celebrates the lunar landing and Buehler’s role.

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Buehler's commitment to the aerospace industry is evident in its partnership with the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM), which serves as a featured Buehler Customer Center. Buehler is on the technical advisory council and is also an affiliate CCAM member, committing testing equipment and research instruments to the CCAM facilities.

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Aircraft Framework

Elevate Aircraft Integrity: Learn how proper sample preparation and analysis can develop the dependability and safety of aircraft frameworks by enhancing your knowledge of materials such as steel fasteners, Titanium, Magnesium alloys, Aluminum, and super alloys. Discover the very core of aerospace metallography as we share expert insights, techniques, and best practices for selecting consumables and improving your hardness testing results.

Thermal Spray Coatings

Drive Aerospace Innovation. Immerse yourself in a comprehensive series of articles dedicated to the science of metallographic sample preparation and analysis for thermal spray coatings. Gain insights into the techniques, methodologies, and materials that drive the aerospace industry, including best practices in vacuum impregnation, consumable selection, porosity measurement, and more. Learn from our experts as they dissect the core principles behind thermal spray coatings and their critical importance in aviation technology.

Additive Materials

Revolutionize Aerospace. Transforming the sector, additive manufacturing addresses the limitations of conventional manufacturing techniques and produces efficient production of intricate components. Prepare for this growth by focusing on the fundamentals of sample preparation and analysis, including best practices in consumable selection based on material, surface coating measurement, hardness test mapping, and more.

Composite Materials

Unlock Potential. Composite materials are finding wider applications in aerospace, building construction, and automotive sectors. Attributes such as their high strength, light weight characteristics, ability to mold to complex shapes, and resistance to corrosion among others, make them invaluable to modern aerospace applications. Learn about some of the most common composites, including fiber reinforced polymers, and best practices during sectioning, mounting, and grinding/polishing stages during preparation sequences.

Discovery Essentials

Aerospace Skylines: Uncover a multitude of aerospace metallography insights, spanning various materials and tasks. Acquire fundamental knowledge and cutting-edge techniques, mastering metallographic procedures that optimize aerospace excellence. Articles include foundational sample preparation and advanced techniques in hardness testing and imaging analysis. Read further for a bonus article celebrating the anniversary of the lunar landing and Buehler’s involvement.