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Micrograph no
206
Brief description
Normalised low carbon manganese steel, taken transverse to directionality
Keywords
alloy Link to MATTER Glossary entry for alloy, carbon, directionality, iron, metal, normalising Link to MATTER Glossary entry for normalising, steel Link to MATTER Glossary entry for steel
Categories
Metal or alloy
System
Fe-C-X   Link to phase diagram
Composition
Fe, C 0.1, Mn 1, S 0.5 (wt%)
Standard codes
Reaction
Processing
Hot worked normalised 1000 ºC
Applications
Sample preparation
Nital
Technique
Reflected light microscopy
Length bar
200 μm
Further information
Low carbon steel with a microstructure consisting mostly of ferrite. Manganese is added to steel to remove oxygen and sulphur. It causes a reduction in the resulting grain size and hence the steel is tougher and stronger. This sample has been normalised, recrystallising the ferrite. This micrograph has been taken transverse to the directionality and hence the directionality present in the carbide is not apparent
Contributor
Dr R F Cochrane
Organisation
Department of Materials, University of Leeds
Date
04/09/02
Licence for re-use
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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