Gallery

Fasching Engineering

Gallery

Interesting micrographs, microstructures and fracture surfaces.

crack texture

Metallographic cross-section of a 316 Stainless Steel pipe, branched cracking indicated stress corrosion cracking (SCC) fracture mechanism.

grain texture

7050 Aluminum extruded part anodized with Barker's reagent to reveal grain structure.

glasses texture

Eyeglass frames made from titanium-nickel alloy fractured at the nose piece.  Scanning Electron micrography (SEM) reveals a fatigue crack that initiated along the bottom right edge.