Steels containing large carbon concentrations are used particularly when a large hardness is required, for example in the manufacture of components such as bearings. This, however, makes it difficult to shape or machine the alloys during the process of component manufacture unless they are first heat–treated into a softened condition. One method of achieving this economically is to generate a m...

A model that describes pearlite-to-austenite transformation during continuous heating in a eutectoid steel has been developed. The influence of structure parameters, such as interlamellar spacing and edge length of pearlite colonies, and heating rate on the austenite formation kinetics has been experimentally studied and considered in the modeling. It has been found that the kinetics of austeni...

The pearlite lamellar spacing (λpearlite) is one of the microstructure parameters that define strength graphite iron (LGI). transformation kinetics λpearlite has been subject several modeling studies for steels, which demonstrated can be calculated as a function undercooling. However, it hard to find in literature models prediction LGI. In present work, fully pearlitic LGI was investigated wi...

In this present work effect of temperature and graphite contents on the microstructural and mechanical properties of iron based powder metallurgy freeform was studied. The different graphite contents (0%, 2%, 5% and 10%) were mixed in iron powder and compact them in 100 KN. These specimens were sintered at 7000 C, 8500 C and 10000 C in muffle furnaces. Microstructural properties were evaluated ...

In Part II of this paper, a cutting force model for the micro-endmilling process is developed. This model incorporates the minimum chip thickness concept in order to predict the effects of the cutter edge radius on the cutting forces. A new chip thickness computation algorithm is developed to include the minimum chip thickness effect. A slip-line plasticity force model is used to predict the fo...

A theory for the diffusion–controlled growth of pearlite in steels containing manganese is presented and assessed in the light of experimental data. Given the overwhelmingly rapid diffusivity that a substitutional solute has within the transformation front, the growth rate is found to be dominated by diffusion parallel to the interface with austenite as the rate controlling step. The relevant i...

M. Suliga, R. Kruzel, Czestochowa University of Technology, Faculty of Production Engineering and Materials Technology, Czestochowa, Poland In the paper the influence of modification of patenting process on steel cord properties has been assessed. It was found that the wires of pearlite structure, in comparison to the wires of pearlite-bainite structure, characterized much better properties whi...

This work presents a three dimensional microstructural analysis of medium carbon steels, based on serial sectioning using optical microscopy. The microstructural phases considered here are ferrite and pearlite. Typically conventional 2D microscopy is used to analyze these phases, with eddy current or ultrasonic methods as alternatives. Medium carbon steel samples were heat treated in a furnace ...

Examination of a time–temperature–transformation (TTT) diagram for an eutectoid carbon steel (Fig. 1), bearing in mind the fact that the pearlite reaction is essentially a high temperature one occurring between 550C and 720C and that the formation of the martensite is a low-temperature reaction, reveals that there is a wide range of temperature ∼250–550C within which neither of these phases for...