Heating Microscopes

Heating microscopy is a non-contact technique that, based upon an advanced image analysis of a specimen subjected to a thermal treatment reproducing industrial firing treatments, identifies a number of characteristic shapes and related temperatures key for the optimization of manufacturing processes in ceramics, metals and alloys.

The characteristic temperatures the system can automatically identify, include sintering beginning, softening, sphere, half-sphere and melting / fusion. Morphometrix, the latest of TA Instruments image analysis software, can also determine flattening curve, contact angle curve, sample area variation curve, ratio curve between width and height, bloating effects, combustion, theoretical glass viscosity (V.F.T. equation) and surface tension (glasses) using the Young-Laplace equation.

Heating Microscopes