This article explains how to prepare nickel-base alloys for metallographic examination and identifies related processing and imaging challenges. It describes sectioning, mounting, grinding, and polishing procedures along with alternative electropolishing processes. It also provides information on etching and examines the microstructure of Nickel 200, Nickel 270, Duranickel 301, Monel 400, Monel R-405, Monel K-500, and other nickel alloys.

This datasheet provides information on key alloy metallurgy, fabrication characteristics, mill-product specifications, processing effects on physical properties, and applications of high-strength alloy 2014. It contains tables that list values of tensile property limits for alloy 2014 flat product, rod, wire, bar, extrusions, and forgings.

This article is a compilation of tables that present information on cross-referencing of steel designations that are followed in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and Britain to AISI/SAE.

Alloy 354.0 was designed especially for premium engineered casting applications requiring high-tensile properties and elongation. This datasheet provides information on key alloy metallurgy, fabrication characteristics, processing effects on physical and mechanical properties, and application characteristics of this alloy.

This article focuses on forging processes and equipment, types of forging alloys, and the forging practices associated with the forging of copper and copper alloys. An overview of the forging tolerances for small copper-base forgings is presented in a table.

Alloy 2124, aerospace plate alloy, is a high-purity version of 2024. This datasheet provides information on key alloy metallurgy, fabrication characteristics, processing effects on physical and mechanical properties, and applications of this series alloy.

This article is a compilation of binary alloy phase diagrams for which erbium (Er) is the first named element in the binary pair. The diagrams are presented with element compositions in weight percent. The atomic percent compositions are given in a secondary scale. For each binary system, a table of crystallographic data is provided that includes the composition, Pearson symbol, space group, and prototype for each phase.