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Pure Iron
Upon heating pure Iron experiences two changes in crystal structure. At room temperature it exists as ferrite, or iron.
1538C
Melts
1394C Ferrite
BCC
912C iron
Austenite FCC
25C Ferrite
BCC
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Austenite
Equilibrium (slow) cooling from the region through the eutectoid composition of 0.76 wt% C
+ Fe3C (Pearlite)
% and Fe3C in eutectoid pearlite
+ Fe3C
Formation of Pearlite
0.022 wt%C 0.76 wt% C 6.7 wt%C
+ Fe3C
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30 m
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y = 140 + 46.4S 1
Increased cooling rates
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Pearlite
Coarse Pearlite
Fine Pearlite
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Spheroidite
Hold steel at high temperature
30 m
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Formation of Martensite
Non-Equilibrium Cooling Carbon must diffuse (move) in order to form pearlite
Diffusion takes time + temperature If the sample is quenched (plunged into water) A supersaturated and unstable structure is formed.
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Martensite
24.6 m
2 m
Quench
Needle shaped White areas austenite
quenched too fast
Tempered
564C small particles cementite 21 matrix is ferrite
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