Webinar to focus on assuring medical grade material quality

Buehler, a manufacturer of scientific equipment is offering a webinar on Metallographic Preparation for Medical Materials and Devices, on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 4pm BST.

The webinar will include examples of sample preparation procedures for quality control or research of medical grade stainless steels, titanium and its alloys, cobalt alloys and other specialty alloys. It will also highlight preparation approaches for ceramic based materials such as dental materials and coatings.

Medical implants and components utilise different alloys and coatings for good mechanical strength, wear and corrosion resistant properties, super elasticity and most importantly biocompatibility. The presenter of the webinar is Dr. Evans Mogire, Buehler EMEA laboratory technical manager. 

Dr. Mogire notes: “Medical components and materials present unique metallographic preparation challenges relating to mechanical damage during sectioning and grinding, including the potential to mask microstructural details during polishing stages. Other potential concerns during metallographic preparation can be hard or brittle material fracture, ductile deformation in soft materials, formation of false porosity, edge rounding effect affecting coated thickness evaluation and foreign contamination from abrasives or suspensions used during polishing.”  

Dr. Evans is based in the United Kingdom at Buehler’s European Solutions Centre in a collaborative venture with Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) with over 600 staff and a strong relation with over 1000 global companies, offering support to over 1800 SMEs through dedicated programmes. Part of WMG's Materials Engineering Centre at the University of Warwick campus, Buehler’s new Solutions Centre aims to support academic and industrial research on various technologies ranging from additive manufacturing, biomedical, energy storage, machining and processing of metallic and composite materials to joining technologies. 

The Buehler metallographic webinar will highlight the preparation challenges and approaches that should be adopted to achieve good quality, efficient and repeatable preparation, and the correct evaluation of medical components, materials and devices. The webinar is aimed at metallurgical technicians, engineers, quality control and laboratory managers in any metallography facility preparing medical materials or components.  

You can register for the webinar here.