Cold Mounting of Materialographic Samples with Emphasis on Fast-curing Resins

​Achieve very high-quality cold mounts in a shorter time.

Cold mounting samples is often necessary to protect fragile or coated materials during preparation and to obtain perfect edge-retention. Struers offers two different types of cold mounting resins, epoxy and acrylic, the choice of which is determined by many factors including: type of material, specimen characteristics, quantity of specimens, and quality requirements. This webinar will focus primarily on the application of fast curing resins with emphasis on newer fast curing epoxies such as ProntoFix. Epoxies are ideal for vacuum impregnation of porous specimens and for high edge-retention requirements. They have the lowest shrinkage of all cold mounting resins. Combining these properties with a fast cure time allows the user to achieve very high-quality mounts in a shorter time.

Attendees will learn about:

• Various Cold Mounting techniques and consumables
• Advantages and disadvantages of epoxies and acrylics
• Case studies utilizing Cold Mounting techniques
• The advantage of fast curing epoxies
• Examples of applications of fast curing epoxy Cold Mounting techniques