Carbide shape, size and relative area in steels and superalloys can indicate the current condition; aging and previous heat treatments performed and therefor is one of the critical features that need to be evaluated. TEServices captures and
reports the shape, location, maximum size (µm), average size (µm), and relative average area (%) of a base material’s carbides. This is done by taking an unetched photo of the base material at 200X magnification and then using a metallurgical software program to calculate the data in five different locations.