Ultramicrotomy on fretting wear debris.
A TEM-sample preparation method for small amounts of fretting wear debris is presented. After embedding in a resin, the debris are ultramicrotomed to ultra-thin sections. In this way, valuable observation of nanocrystalline fretting wear debris originating from TiN-coatings could be rapidly obtained.
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MTM-KU Leuven, Belgium.
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Celis
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D000497:Alloys; D008422:Materials Testing; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008867:Microtomy; D014025:Titanium
D000497:Alloys; C041500:titanium nitride; D014025:Titanium