Abstract
The infiltration of porous and particulate materials for metallographic examination with low-melting alloys was first described by Rose and DeRoos . The use of Wood's metal to fill porosity in sandstone was reported by Craze , by Dullien , and by Yadev et al. . Changes in pore structure and phase dispersions in iron ore pellets after simulated blast furnace reduction were reported by Shultz et al. , wherein liquid Bi-Sn impregnation was used to prepare cross sections of deformed and reduced pellets for backscatter electron imaging. Steele and Engel also applied the technique to examine the microstructure in commercial boron nitride (BN). In that study porosity formed by leaching the B2O3phase was filled with liquid metal to allow argon-ion etching to expose the BN microstructure. The characterization of cracks and porosity in cement-based materials after filling with Wood's metal has been reported by Nemati et al. . Cracks developed during compression testing of marble were studied byin-situmetal impregnation in Chang et al. .
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