Quenched steel

While quenched steel with carbon above 0,6%, the temperature of the end martensite transformation is below zero, thus the transformation of austenite into martensite is incomplete and this remaining cooled austenite is called residual austenite. 

The principle physical phenomenon of applying the eddy current method for evaluating the amount of residual austenite in the structure of quenched steel is magnetic induction, involving the influence of the changeable magnetic field on the studied area, found under the probe. 

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Steel (Quenching. Bismuth and bismuth—lead ahoys are used in the processing of some steel products. The thermal conductivity of bismuth makes it ideal for use in quenching steel. The use of a bismuth—lead ahoy in place of lead alone has the advantage of lowering the operating temperature of the bath as weh as reducing adherence of ahoy to the steel. 

The two samples have such divergent mechanical properties because they have radically different structures the structure of the as-received steel is shaped by a diffusive transformation, but the structure of the quenched steel is shaped by a displacive change. But what are displacive changes And why do they take place ... 

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Quenching (front the solid state). Metastable alloys have been very familiar to metallurgists for a long time now. Several alloys employed in everyday applications contain metastable phases. Typical examples are quenched steels and precipitation hardened aluminium alloys. Until the 1960s, metastable alloys were always obtained by quenching (rapid cooling) from the solid state. 

Slowly cooled steels are relatively soft. Rapidly quenched steels are strong and hard. Information on the typical uses of steel with varying levels of carbon appears in TABLE 9-1. 

Such transformations have been extensively studied in quenched steels, but they can also be found in nonferrous alloys, ceramics, minerals, and polymers. They have been studied mainly for technical reasons, since the transformed material often has useful mechanical properties (hard, stiff, high damping (internal friction), shape memory). Martensitic transformations can occur at rather low temperature ( 100 K) where diffusional jumps of atoms are definitely frozen, but also at much higher temperature. Since they occur without transport of matter, they are not of central interest to solid state kinetics. However, in view of the crystallographic as well as the elastic and even plastic implications, diffusionless transformations may inform us about the principles involved in the structural part of heterogeneous solid state reactions, and for this reason we will discuss them. 

Staff. "Quick-Quenching Steels." Pttp. Met liurtics. 18 lOclober 1990). 

H. Surm, O. KeBler, E. Hoffmann, and P. Mayr, Carburized, CVD Coated and Gas Quenched Steels Carbon Profile, Microstructure and Hardness, EUROMAT, (Proceedings of Conference), Munich, Germany, 1999, to be published. 

The actual microstructure of the martensite that forms is also composition-dependent. Below about 0.6 wt% carbon the martensite forms in long blades and is called lath martensite. At compositions above about 1.0 wt% carbon the form is more lens-shaped in form, and is called plate martensite. At compositions between 0.6 wt% and 1.0 wt% carbon, a mixture of the two forms is found. In addition, most rapidly-quenched steels contain some austenite that has not transformed, intergrown with the laths or plates of martensite. 

The resistance to wear and abrasion was tested on steel 45 samples with different coatings. The second body was made of quenched steel 45. The wear resistance of samples increased by a factor of 5-7 for molybdenum carbide coatings [5], 6-9 for tungsten carbide coatings, and 8-11 for zirconium diboride coatings. 

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