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Author: Serope Kalpakjian, Steven Schmid
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Chapter 4, Problem 31QTP
Design a heat-treating cycle for carbon steel, including temperature and exposure times, to produce (a) pearlite–martensite steels and (b) bainite–martensite steels.
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With respect to the S-N diagram shown below, answer the following questions:(a) for Gray cast iron, what is the projected number of cycles to failure for an induced stress of 20,000 psi?(b) What is the endurance limit and associated stress for a 0.47% heat treated carbon steel? (c) What is the endurance limit for the Aluminum-copper alloy?(d) What is the endurance strength for heat treated Alloy Steel at 400,000 cycles?
(c) The steels with the following compositions are heat treated and the results of
microstructures are indicated in Table 2(c).
Table 2(c): Heat treated steels and the results of microstructures
Steel A
0.35 wt% C
Coarse Pearlite
Steel B
0.25 wt% C
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Steel C
0.35 wt% C
Fine Pearlite
Rank the above steels based on carbon content and microstructures from the highest
to the lowest hardness with justification.
In your own words describe the following heat treatment procedures for steels and, for each, the intended final microstructure:
(a) full annealing
(b) normalizing
(c) quenching
(d) tempering.
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