Fig. 4 Hydrogen-induced disbonding of stainless steel clad plate steel produced in a laboratory test in accordance with ASTM G 146 in high-pressure hydrogen. The crack is in the stainless steel cladding shown at the top of the micrograph. 200× More

Fig. 43 Hydrogen-induced disbonding of stainless steel clad plate steel produced in a laboratory test in accordance with ASTM G 146 in high-pressure hydrogen. The crack is in the stainless steel cladding shown at the top of the micrograph. 200× More

Fig. 12.10 Aqueous solution. (a) Plating steel with zinc (galvanizing) offers cathodic protection to steel if the plating is scratched. (b) Tin plating offers no cathodic protection so the steel will corrode if the plating is scratched. More

Fig. 7.42 Micrograph showing microstructure of a vanadium microalloyed plate steel with too much pressure being applied during polishing with 0.3 μm alumina. The black arrow points to a ferrite grain with a smeared surface. The outlined white arrow shows a normal ferrite grain. 2% nital etch More

Fig. 33 Stress-oriented hydrogen-induced cracking in refinery plate steel. Note the stacked array of hydrogen blister cracks going through the thickness of the material (vertical) oriented perpendicular to the direction of the applied tensile stress (horizontal). More

Fig. 11-15 Composite fabrication of a gear case. Three cast steel A frames, top view, are welded together with plate steel. More

Fig. 19.2 Transverse section through a mid-face longitudinal crack in a low-carbon plate steel. As-polished section, light micrograph More

Fig. 11-16 Composite fabrication of a diesel engine block. The seven frame bearing castings are welded into a fabricated plate steel base. More

Fig. 3.2 Galvanized steel plate. The grains of zinc that solidified on the plate surface can be observed. The structure is almost two-dimensional. Each division in the ruler at the lower part of the image corresponds to 1 mm. No etching. More

Fig. 4 An aluminum plate riveted to a steel plate resulted in a galvanic couple and crevice corrosion that produced a significant amount of corrosion products between the two plates. The stresses generated as a result of the volume change of the corrosion products were sufficient More

Fig. 5.31 Cementite (small linear dark features) formed in martensite during quenching of plate steels containing 0.19% carbon ( Ref 5.60 ). Transmission electron micrographs More

Fig. 9.10 Effect of sulfur content and specimen orientation on impact toughness as a function of test temperature for 4340 plate steels hardened and tempered to two strength levels. Source: Ref 9.39 More

Fig. 10 Example of exfoliation corrosion. (a) Failed alloy 2024-T4 tailplane fitting. Arrow points to corrosion that was produced by direct contact between a cadmium-plated steel bolt and the aluminum fitting. (b) Exfoliation in the tailplane fitting. 55× More

Fig. 16 Effect of calcium treatment and inclusion shape control on the Charpy V-notch (CVN) transition curves of two 100 mm (4 in.) A 633 grade C HSLA plate steels tested in the longitudinal (LT), transverse (TL), and short-transverse through thickness (SL) orientations. CON, conventional More

Fig. 5 Microstructure of quenched 1.3% C steel. Dark needles of plate martensite and white areas of retained austenite (white arrow) More

Fig. 9.14 Plate martensite in water-quenched eutectoid (~0.8% C) steel (UNS G10800) The light regions between the martensite plates are retained austenite. 10% sodium metabisulfite etch. Original magnification 1000×. Source: Ref 9.6 More

Fig. 12.1 Welded stainless steel plate on the exterior of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Mo. Courtesy of Wikipedia More

Fig. 9.27 Formation of Widmanstätten cementite plates in 1.4% C hypereutectoid steels. 1.43C-0.01Si-0.36Mn (wt%). (a) Austenitized at 1000 °C, cooled at 100 °C/h. Sodium picrate etchant. 500×. (b) Austenitized at 1000 °C, cooled at ~1000 °C/h. Sodium picrate. 500×. More

Fig. 9.28 (Part 1) Formation of microcracks in plate martensite. (a) and (b) 1.2% C steel (1.20C-0.20Si-0.50Mn, wt%). Austenitized at 900 °C for 30 min, water quenched, tempered at 200 °C. Vilella. 250×. (c) 1.2% C steel (1.20C-0.20Si-0.50Mn, wt%). Austenitized at 1100 °C for 30 min More

Fig. 11.14 Weld interface of an explosive weld of 0.15% C steel plate and commercially pure aluminum plate. (a) 1% nital. 10× (b) and (c) 1% nital. 100×. More