2000 Winners International Metallographic Contest

Previous winners: 1997, 1998, 1999

Best In Show, Jacquet-Lucas Award

Ag-Cu-Sn Ternary Eutectic Structure Determination
Daniel J. Lewis & Sarah Allen
Daniel Lewis: Lehigh University
Dept. of  Materials Science & Engineering
Bethlehem, PA, 18015 USA
Sarah Allen: Manchester Materials Science Centre
University of Manchester and UMIST
Grosvenor Street
Manchester
M1 7HR
United Kingdom

CLASS 1: Light Microscopy - Metals and Metal Alloys

1st Place
none awarded

2nd Place
Porosity in Lens Powders and Deposits
Don Susan (et al)
Sandia National Labs
P.O. Box 5800, MS 0886

3rd Place
none awarded

Honorable Mention
Revealing Grain Structure in Cold Worked/Recrystallized
High Purity Aluminum - 0.5% Copper
Dennis Meade
Tosoh SMD, Inc.
Boeing Commercial Airline Group
3600 Gantz Road
Grove City, Ohio

Honorable Mention
Field Metallographic Replicas
of Crept Components in Life Estimation
Dr. G. Venkataraman
Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd.
Tiruchirappalli 620014
Tamilnadu, India

CLASS 2: Light Microscopy - All Other Engineering Materials

1st Place
Reaction Synthesis and Sintering of Iron Aluminide
Shalva Gedevanishvili & Seetharama C. Deevi
Research & Development
Crysalis Technologies, Inc.

2nd Place
Durability vs Performance:
The Battle of the Composite Water Ski
Erie Gilbert, B. Hayes, and J. Seferis
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle

3rd Place
High Performance Fly Fishing Rods:
A Failure Analysis
Erie Gilbert, B. Hayes, and J. Seferis
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle

CLASS 3: Electron Microscopy - Transmission and Analytical

1st Place
Mechanical Deformation of Isolated Gold Clusters
Tokushi Kizuka, K. Hosoki, S. Deguchi, and M. Naruse
Research Center for Advanced Waste & Emission Management

2nd Place
What is Formed Above Ms? - Seeing the Precursor
Y. Murakami, Y. Ikematsu, and D. Shimoo
Institute for Advanced Materials Processing

3rd Place
none awarded

CLASS 4: Electron Microscopy - Scanning

1st Place
none awarded

2nd Place
none awarded

3rd Place
Microstructural Characterization of Calcium Phosphate Biocements:
Comparison Between Conventional and High Pressure Processing Techniques
Herb Mueller
Paffenbarger Research Center
NIST
Gaithersburg, MD

3rd Place
Impurities in Greenland Ice
Daniel Cullen and Ian Baker
Thayer School of Engineering
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH

CLASS 5: Unique, Unusual, and New Techniques in Microscopy

1st Place
none awarded

2nd Place
none awarded

3rd Place
Three-Dimensional Imaging of Carbon Nanotubes
Tokushi Kizuka, S. Banjo, T. Sumi, and T. Saito
Research Center for Advanced Waste and Emission Management

Honorable Mention
Cross-Sectional Microscopy Using Focused Ion Beam (FIB)
Kedar Sapre, Sudipta Seal, Zia Rahmann,
Hong-Bin Wang, and Paul Jepson
University of Central Florida

CLASS 6: Color Microscopy

1st Place
none awarded

2nd Place
Selectivity of Immersion Color Etching
Jamina M. Radzikowska
Foundry Research Institute
Zakopianska 73
30-418 Krakow, Poland

3rd Place
none awarded

CLASS 7: Artistic Microscopy - Color Only

1st Place
Color Weave
Jamina M. Radzikowska
Foundry Research Institute
Zakopianska 73
30-418 Krakow, Poland

2nd Place
Ti-Dreams
Jamina M. Radzikowska
Foundry Research Institute
Zakopianska 73
30-418 Krakow, Poland

2nd Place
Y+B Cerium Metal
Ramiro Pereyra
Los Alamos National Labs
P.O. Box 1663
Los Alamos, NM

3rd Place
*Face*
Phillipe Perodeaud
Site de Pierrelatte Cedex
Cea Valhro, France

Honorable Mention
Yee Siau Cheng
Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy
University of Cambridge

Honorable Mention
*Flash*
Danielle Pison
Site de Pierrelatte Cedex
Cea Valhro, France

CLASS 8: Artistic Microscopy - B&W Only

1st Place
Arc Cast Niobium Carbide
Ramiru Pereyra.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
P.O. Box 1663
Los Alamos, NM

2nd Place
Anchor in the Sand
Christian Perret
Site de Pierrelatte Cedex
Cea Valhro, France

3rd Place
Micro Flower
Mohit Jain, W. Roger Cannon, and Bernard H. Kear
Department of Ceramics and Materials Engineering

CLASS 9: Undergraduate Student - Metals and Metal Alloys

no entries

CLASS 10: Undergraduate Student - All Other Engineering Materials

no entries

CLASS 11: Digital Microscopy

no prizes awarded

CLASS 12: DuBose-Crouse Award

Color Etching of Copper and its Alloys
George VanderVoort
Buehler Limited
41 Waukegan Road
Lake Bluff, IL 60044