Failure Analysis of Heat Treated Steel Components
Steel Failures due to Tempering and Isothermal Heat Treatment
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Published:2008
Abstract
This chapter reviews the causes and cases associated with the problems originated by tempering of steels. To provide background on this phenomenon, a brief description of the martensite reactions and the steel heat treatment of tempering is given to review the different stages of microstructural transformation. A section describing the types of embrittlement from tempering, along with mechanical tests for the determination of temper embrittlement (TE), is presented. Various factors involved in the interaction of the TE phenomenon with hydrogen embrittlement and liquid-metal embrittlement are also provided. The cases covered are grinding cracks on steel cam shaft and transgranular...
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Member Sign InJan Vatavuk, L.C.F. Canale, Steel Failures due to Tempering and Isothermal Heat Treatment, Failure Analysis of Heat Treated Steel Components, Edited By Lauralice de C.F. Canale, Rafael A. Mesquita, George E. Totten, ASM International, 2008, p 285–309, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.tb.fahtsc.t51130285
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