Metallography

One of the most common steels used to make fixtures, dies, and tooling are tool steels. Tool steels are both strong, tough, and highly resistant to wear due to their high hardness. Tool steels come in many varieties with...

Stainless steels come in a couple varieties including the typical austenitic corrosion resistant stainless steels (CRES), ferritic stainless steels, duplex stainless steels, precipitation hardened, and martensitic stainless steels. The austenitic stainless steels such as 304 and 316 are commonly...

Sometimes it’s interesting to see what happens when you cut a material. For thin sheet metal, shearing is a common operation to get to a net or near net geometry. Shearing applies a shear force to the sheet metal...