Micrograph 203 and full record
- Micrograph no
- 203
- Brief description
- Normalised low carbon manganese steel, showing directionality
- Keywords
- alloy , carbon, directionality, iron, metal, normalising , steel
- Categories
- Metal or alloy
- System
- Fe-C-X
- 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
- 400 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. The pearlite is unable to do this and consequently retains its directionality.
- 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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