Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Measurement of particle size, volume fraction, and foil thickness from electron microscopic observations

  • Papers
  • Published:
Journal of Materials Science Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The analysis of images produced by thin foils containing dispersed spherical particles is developed for the case when particles which intersect the foil surface remain unattacked during thinning. Identification of these particles is shown to allow quantitative assessment of the second phase and the foil thickness. The model is tested and experimental techniques for labelling surface particles are discussed with reference to data on aged Mg/0.67 wt % Mn.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. J. W. Cahn andJ. Nutting,Trans. AIME 215 (1959) 526.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. J. E. Hilliard,ibid 224 (1962) 906.

    Google Scholar 

  3. J. M. G. Crompton, R. M. Waghorne, andG. B. Brook,Brit. J. Appl. Phys. 17 (1966) 1301.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. M. F. Ashby andR. Ebeling,Trans. AIME 236 (1966) 1396.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. E. Scheil,Z. Metalk. 27 (1935) 119.

    Google Scholar 

  6. R. L. Fullman,Trans. AIME 197 (1953) 447.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. P. B. Hirsch, A. Howie, R. B. Nicholson, D. W. Pashley, andM. J. Whelan, “Electron Microscopy of Thin Crystals” (Butterworths, London, 1965), p. 415.

    Google Scholar 

  8. C. L. Formby,Phil. Mag. 13 (1966) 621.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Y. Ishida,ibid 14 (1966) 411.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. J. E. Harris, P. G. Partridge, W. J. Eeles, andG. K. Rickards,J. Nucl. Math. 9 (1963) 339.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. C. Wagner,Z. Elektrochem. 65 (1961) 581.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. E. Schmid andG. Siebel,Metallwirtschaft 10 (1931) 923.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. J. D. Grogan andJ. L. Haughton,J. Inst. Metals 69 (1943) 241.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. D. A. Petrov, M. S. Mirgalovskaya, I. A. Strelnitcova, andE. M. Comava,Trudy Inst. Metall. A Baukova, Akad. Nauk. SSSR 1 (1957) 142.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Metallurgy, The University, Sheffield, UK

    C. M. Sellars

  2. Central Electricity Generating Board, Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories, Berkeley, Glos, UK

    A. F. Smith

Authors
  1. C. M. Sellars
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. A. F. Smith
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Sellars, C.M., Smith, A.F. Measurement of particle size, volume fraction, and foil thickness from electron microscopic observations. J Mater Sci 2, 521–528 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00752218

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00752218

Keywords

Search

Navigation