Appendices
This page offers a number of documents that you will find useful before, during, and after the laboratory session. These include tables of materials properties, operating procedures for the equipment, and documents that will help you get the most out of your spreadsheet-based assignments and writing the laboratory reports.
Spreadsheets
The following documents should help you with your spreadsheet-based projects.
- Corel Quattro Pro Reference
- Corel Quattro Pro Tutorials
- Microsoft Excel Reference
- Microsoft Excel Tutorials
- Spreadsheets Hints and Formatting
- Excel Reference (draft)
- Getting Started Quickly Using Spreadsheets
Equipment
The following documents provide operating instructions for using some of the equipment in our laboratories.
- Macromet 1 Operation (Hardness Tester)
- Macromet I Operation (Hardness Tester)
- Instron Operation, Methods 45 and 46 (Tensile Tester)
- Instron Operation, Methods 38 and 39 (Tensile Tester)
- Mechanical Properties of Selected Materials
- Operation of the Nikon Labophot 2A
- Samplmet Abrasive Cut-off Saw
- Simplimet 3 Specimen Mounting Press
- Handimet II Grinders
- Standard Polisher/Grinders
- Thermolyne Ovens
- Bransonic Ultrasonic Cleaner
Optical Microscopy and Metallography
The following documents offer tips, tricks, and procedures for various metallographic procedures.
- The Optical Microscope
- Digital Image Capture, Polaroid DMC Version
- Enhancing Digital Images
- Creating a Proper Micron Bar
- Making Montages Using Adobe Photoshop
- Metallographic Sample Preparation for 70/30 Brass
- Basic Sampling Statistics
- Measuring Grain Size
- Measuring Volume Fraction of Phases
Advanced Instrumentation
The following documents provide operating instructions and offer instrument specifications, and procedures of specific types of analyses using advanced instrumentation available in Materials Science Central Facilities.
- X-ray Safety Handout
- Operation of the Scintag X-ray Diffractometer
- Basic information on the FEI XL30-SFEG scanning electron microscope
- Notes on the Electron Backscatter Diffraction technique
Miscellaneous
The following documents cover topics that did not fit into any of the above categories.
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