Facilities formerly used by Amenex Associates, Inc.
The laboratory at Amenex Associates, Inc. was equipped with metallographic specimen preparation equipment, optical and scanning electron microscopes, a variety of hardness testing machines, and a professional library for research, failure analysis and materials testing.

Our resources included:

Macrophotography
Photographic stand with camera and assorted lenses (sold)
Sony Mavica digital camera (still in use)

Optical Microscopy
Bausch & Lomb metallographs (two available; one more still in use)
(with bright field, dark field, and polarized light)
Reichert metallograph (sold)
(with bright and dark field, polarized light and Nomarski differential interfernce contrast)
Two more Reichert metallographs (available)
(with bright and dark field, polarized light only)
Olympus stereomicroscope (still in use)
Bausch & Lomb toolmaker's microscope (still in use)
Toolmaker's optical projector with 20X magnification (still in use)

Metallography
Two specimen hot mounting presses (both sold)
Five rotary grinding wheels (all sold)
Four rotary polishing wheels (three sold; one still in use)
Minimet automatic grinding/polishing machine (still in use)

Chemical inventory for standard ASTM etchants
(almost all given away)

Electron Microscopy
(all sold)
ETEC Autoprobe with three wavelength-dispersive spectrometers
Vacuum evaporator for carbon and metals
Kevex X-ray analyzer

Hardness Testing
Wilson Rockwell hardness tester (sold)
Wilson Rockwell superficial hardness tester (available)
Wilson model FB Tukon microhardness tester (sold)
Tukon model LL microhardness tester (still in use)
Brinell hardness tester (still in use)

Professional Library
(nearly all available)
About 1000 technical volumes
Metallurgical Transactions (complete A and B)
Acta Metallurgica (complete)
Advanced Materials & Processes
Journal of Metals
Metal Progress
Transactions of AIME
Metallurgical Reviews
Metallurgical Abstracts
Current Contents on Disk (1991 to 1997)
Iron and steel journals
Foundry journals

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