Practical Heat Treating: Basic Principles
Abstract
The existence of austenite and ferrite, along with carbon alloying, is fundamental in the heat treatment of steel. In view of the importance of structure and its formation to heat treatment, this chapter describes the various microstructures that form in steels, the various factors that determine the formation of microstructures during heat treatment processing of steel, and some of the characteristic properties of each of the microstructures. The discussion also covers the constitution of iron during heat treatment and the phases of heat-treated steel with elaborated information on iron phase transformation, hysteresis in heating and cooling, ferrite and austenite as two crystal structures of solid iron, and the diffusion coefficient of carbon.
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Member Sign InFundamentals of Steel Heat Treatment, Practical Heat Treating: Basic Principles, By Jon L. Dossett, ASM International, 2020, p 29–53, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.tb.phtbp.t59310029
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