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CLASS 1 Soft Ductile Materials
Examples include aluminum, copper, tin, lead, zinc and polymer matrix composites (PMC's).

Description: Class 1 materials are relatively soft materials which have a wide range of industrial applications.

Preparation Challenge: The difficulty in preparing these materials arises from the fact that these materials are very soft and often times have oxide inclusions (aluminum and copper) in the microstructure. Proper specimen preparation minimizes abrasive embedding and retains the oxides, thus eliminating scratching and smearing. If the specimen is not prepared properly, the microstructure will not be accurately represented.

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CLASS 1 Soft Ductile Materials
Aluminum Copper
2024 Aluminum
2024 aluminum micrograph

Tough Pitch Copper
Metallographic micrograph Nickel iron bronze

6061 Aluminum
6061 aluminum micrograph

Copper - Zinc alloys
Metallographic micrograph of a copper zinc alloy

7075 Aluminum
7075 aluminum micrograph

Manganese-Aluminum Bronze
Metallographic micrograph of manganese aluminum bronze

Aluminum-silicate alloy
Aluminum-silicate metallographic microstructure

Nickel-Iron Bronze
Metallographic micrograph Nickel iron bronze

Zinc-Aluminum alloy
Zinc-Aluminum alloy metallographic microstructure

Brass
Metallographic micrograph Nickel iron bronze

  Copper / Stainless Steel Weld
Metallograhic microstructure of copper stainless steel weld


Lead, Tin, Zinc Polymer Matrix Composites
Tin (pure) / Tin alloys
Metallographic micrograph for tin-antimony-copper

Carbon-carbon composites
Metallographic micrograph of carbon-carbon composites

Lead
Type metal microstructure

Boron graphite composites
Metallographic micrograph of boron graphite composites

Zinc and zinc alloys
Metallographic micrograph for zinc

Glass filled polymer composites
Metallographic micrograph of glass filled polymer composites


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