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Microstructurally, alloys are composed of alloy constituents that include alloy phases and, in some cases, unalloyed metals. Crystalline alloy phases can be subdivided into intermetallic phases, metal-nonmetal compounds such as borides or carbides see Borides Solid-state Chemistry Carbides Transition Metal Solid-state Chemistry), and terminal or complete solid solutions. 

Galvanic corrosion or bimetallic corrosion is important to consider since most of the structural industrial metals and even the metallic phases in the microstructure alloys create galvanic cells between them and/or the a Mg anodic phase. However, these secondary particles which are noble to the Mg matrix, can in certain circumstances enrich the corrosion product or the passive layer, leading to a decrease or a control of the corrosion rate. Severe corrosion may occur in neutral solutions of salts of heavy metals, such as copper, iron and nickel. The heavy metal, the heavy metal basic salts or both plate out to form active cathodes on the anodic magnesium surface. Small amounts of dissolved salts of alkali or alkaline-earth metal (chlorides, bromides, iodides and sulfates) in water will break the protective film locally and usually lead to pitting (Froats et al., 1987 Shaw and Wolfe, 2005). 

The Standard covers bar, plates, sheets, strip, structural shapes rolled stock, pipes, sheets with laminar coating and strip of carbon, alloyed and electrical steels and sets up nondestructive magnetic method of mechanical and service properties and microstructure control. 

Fig. 5. Microstructure of a cemented carbide alloy, 86%WC—8%(Ti,Ta,Nb)C—6%Co, with a cobalt-enriched periphery and a TiC—TiCN—TiN coating.

Fig. 5. A 90° polished cross section of a production white titania enamel, with the microstructure showing the interface between steel and direct-on enamel as observed by reflected light micrography at 3500 x magnification using Nomarski Interface Contrast (oil immersion). A is a steel substrate B, complex interface phases including an iron—nickel alloy C, iron titanate crystals D, glassy matrix E, anatase, Ti02, crystals and F, quart2 particle.

Shock-recovery experiments by Gray [10] were conducted to assess directly if the strain-path reversal inherent to the shock contains a traditional microstructurally controlled Bauschinger effect for a shock-loaded two-phase material. Two samples of a polycrystalline Al-4 wt.% Cu alloy were shock loaded to 5.0 GPa and soft recovered in the same shock assembly to assure identical shock-loading conditions. The samples had two microstructural... 

L.E. Murr, Residual Microstructure—Mechanical Property Relationships in Shock-Loaded Metals and Alloys, in Shock Waves and High Strain Rate Phenomena in Metals (edited by M.A. Meyers and L.E. Murr), Plenum, New York, 1981, 607 pp. 

Slides Turbofan aero-engine super-alloy turbine blades, showing cooling ports [3] super-alloy microstructures [4] DS eutectic microstructures [3, 5] ceramic turbine blades. 

Slides Microstructures of oxide layers and oxide-resistant coatings on metals and alloys selective attack of eutectic alloys [5]. 

A copper-antimony alloy containing 95 weight% antimony is allowed to cool from 650°C to room temperature. Describe the different phase changes which take place as the alloy is cooled and make labelled sketches of the microstructure to illustrate your answer. 

Fig. 10.4. Room temperature microstructures in the Al + 4 wt% Cu alloy, (a) Produced by slow cooling from 550°C. (b) Produced by moderately fast cooling from 550°C. The precipitates in (a) are large and far apart. The precipitates in (b) are small and close together.

Aluminium and magnesium melt at just over 900 K. Room temperature is 0.3 T and 100°C is 0.4 T, . Substantial diffusion can take place in these alloys if they are used for long periods at temperatures approaching 80-100°C. Several processes can occur to reduce the yield strength loss of solutes from supersaturated solid solution, overageing of precipitates and recrystallisation of cold-worked microstructures. 

We already know quite a bit about the transformations that take place in steels and the microstructures that they produce. In this chapter we draw these features together and go on to show how they are instrumental in determining the mechanical properties of steels. We restrict ourselves to carbon steels alloy steels are covered in Chapter 12. 

Figures 11.2-11.6 show how the room temperature microstructure of carbon steels depends on the carbon content. The limiting case of pure iron (Fig. 11.2) is straightforward when yiron cools below 914°C a grains nucleate at y grain boundaries and the microstructure transforms to a. If we cool a steel of eutectoid composition (0.80 wt% C) below 723°C pearlite nodules nucleate at grain boundaries (Fig. 11.3) and the microstructure transforms to pearlite. If the steel contains less than 0.80% C (a hypoeutectoid steel) then the ystarts to transform as soon as the alloy enters the a+ yfield (Fig. 11.4). "Primary" a nucleates at y grain boundaries and grows as the steel is cooled from A3...

Eutectics and eutectoids are important. They are common in engineering alloys, and allow the production of special, strong, microstructures. Peritectics are less important. But you should know what they are and what they look like, to avoid confusing them with other features of phase diagrams. 

These three passive systems are important in the technique of anodic protection (see Chapter 21). The kinetics of the cathodic partial reaction and therefore curves of type I, II or III depend on the material and the particular medium. Case III can be achieved by alloying additions of cathodically acting elements such as Pt, Pd, Ag, and Cu. In principle, this is a case of galvanic anodic protection by cathodic constituents of the microstructure [50]. 

The sequence just outlined provides a salutary lesson in the nature of explanation in materials science. At first the process was a pure mystery. Then the relationship to the shape of the solid-solubility curve was uncovered that was a partial explanation. Next it was found that the microstructural process that leads to age-hardening involves a succession of intermediate phases, none of them in equilibrium (a very common situation in materials science as we now know). An understanding of how these intermediate phases interact with dislocations was a further stage in explanation. Then came an nnderstanding of the shape of the GP zones (planar in some alloys, globniar in others). Next, the kinetics of the hardening needed to be... 

The study of microstructures in relation to important properties of metals and alloys, especially mechanical properties, continues apaee. A good overview of eurrent concerns can be found in a multiauthor volume published in Germany (Anon. 1981), and many chapters in my own book on physieal metallurgy (Cahn 1965) are devoted to the same issues. 

Tanner, L.E, and Leamy, H.J. (1974) The microstructure of order-disorder transitions, in Order-Disorder Transformations in Alloys, ed. Warlimont, H. (Springer, Berlin) p. 180. 

Figure 12.3. Comparison between experimental observations (a-c) and simulation predictions (d f) of the microstructural development of a chessboard pattern forming in a Con sPtf,) j alloy slowly cooled from 1023 K to (a) 963 K, (b) 923 K and (e) 873 K. The last of these was maintained at 87.3 K to allow the chessboard pattern time to perfect itself (Le Bouar ei iil. 2000) (courtesy...

Precipitate microstructures are important for the strength and hardness of many alloys [196-210]. A number of experimental [211-228] and theoretical [220,229-247] investigations have shown that the development of precipitate morphologies is influenced by elastic interactions (El) resulting from a lattice misfit between matrix and precipitates and from an externally applied elastic strain. 

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