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INDUSTRY NEWS
Best Paper Award 2018: Buehler honors
top publications on metallography
On the occasion of the 53rd
Metallographie-Tagung,
organized by the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Materialkunde
eV at the MaterialWoche
in Dresden from 18 to 20
September 2019, Buehler ITW
Test & Measurement presented
the Best Paper Awards of
2018, recognizing the three
best papers from the journal
‘Practical Metallography’
of the previous year. The
contributions are judged by
a panel of jurors made up of
members of the scientifi c
advisory board of the journal.
Place 1, combined with a check for 1,500 €, went
to S. Dieck, M. Ecke, J. Frömert and T. Halle from
the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg for
the contribution “Microstructural Characterization
of Martensitic Q&P Steels – a Comparison of
Etching Techniques and Electron Backscatter
Diffraction”.
At a prize money of € 500, 2nd place went to A.
Neidel, M. Giller, S. Riesenbeck and E. Wöhl,
Siemens AG, with the contribution “Ageing Tests of
Alloy 617 to Simulate Service Embrittlement”.
The third place winners, R. Schnitzer, C. Hofer, S.
Mayer, M. Panzenböck, D. Holec and H. Clemens
from the Montanuniversität Leoben received an
amount of € 300 for the contribution “Multi-Scale
Microstructural characterization”.
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Mücklich: “We are very
pleased that the special profile of the journal
‘Practical Metallography’ is also visible in the
high-quality contributions in which the authors
share the latest findings on reproducible
microstructural preparation, microscopic
micrographs and quantitative microstructure
evaluation with the global community. Such
information is increasingly essential for the great
task of the digital transformation of materials
technology and its quality assurance. “
Buehler – ITW Test & Measurement GmbH,
Esslingen/Germany has been a leading
manufacturer of instruments, consumables and
accessories for metallography and materials
analysis since 1936, and also supplies a
comprehensive range of hardness testers and
hardness testing systems. A tight network of branch
offices and dealers means our customers can
depend on professional assistance and service
around the world. The Buehler Solutions Centre in
Esslingen and further centres of this kind in Europe
and elsewhere can offer all kinds of assistance
with application questions or with devising
reproducible preparation procedures.
Buehler is part of the Test and Measurement
Segment of the US company Illinois Tool Works
(ITW) with some 100 decentralized business units
in 52 countries and around 51,000 employees
For further information about products
and services available from Buehler
ITW Test & Measurement please visit
https://www.buehler.com
Handover of the Best Paper Awards 2018 (from left to right): Michael
Engstler, Editor Praktische Metallographie, Thorsten Halle, Otto-von-
Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (1st Prize), Dr. Evans Mogire, Buehler,
Sebastian Dieck, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (1st
Prize), Martin Ecke, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (1st
Prize), Svea Mayer, Montanuniversität Leoben (3rd Prize), Andreas
Neidel, Siemens AG Berlin (2nd Prize), Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank
Mücklich, Editor Praktische Metallographie
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