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- Micrograph no
- 143
- Brief description
- Notched low carbon ferritic steel, failed through cleavage.
- Keywords
- alloy , brittle , fracture , metal, steel
- Categories
- Fracture, Metal or alloy
- System
- Fe-C-X
- Composition
- Not specified
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- Applications
- Sample preparation
- Technique
- Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
- Length bar
- 20 μm
- Further information
- Cleavage planes are clearly visible in the micrograph which indicate brittle fracture has occurred. Macroscopically, chevron markings are visible which point to the origin of failure.
- Contributor
- K Clark
- Organisation
- Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
- Date
- 24/01/02
- Licence for re-use
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International