Online Sessions: Industrial Metallurgy (UME517)

Module: IRON-CARBON SYSTEM

Dr. Tarun Nanda

Professor, MED
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala
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 IRON-CARBON SYSTEM
Presentation 42
Contents Covered
1. Types of steels on metallurgical basis
2. Equilibrium cooling of a eutectoid steel
3. Equilibrium cooling of hypo-eutectoid steels
4. Equilibrium cooling of hyper-eutectoid steels

Dr. Tarun Nanda, MED, TIET, Patiala 2

 Types of steels on metallurgical basis

Figure 38.1* Iron-cementite phase diagram Figure 40.1* Classification of steels on metallurgical basis
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Equilibrium cooling of eutectoid steel

Figure 41.1 Equilibrium cooling

of a eutectoid steel

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Equilibrium cooling of hypo-eutectoid steel

Figure 41.2 Equilibrium cooling of

hypo-eutectoid steel

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Equilibrium cooling of hypo-eutectoid steel

Figure 41.2
Microstructures
in a slowly
cooled hypo-
eutectoid steel

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Equilibrium cooling of hyper-eutectoid steel

Figure 41.3 Equilibrium cooling of hyper-eutectoid

steel

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Equilibrium cooling of hyper-eutectoid steel

Figure 41.3 Equilibrium cooling of hyper-eutectoid steel

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Dr. Tarun Nanda, MED, TIET, Patiala