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    The Iron-Carbon Phase Diagram: Steven Shepherd December 06, 2005

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    This document discusses the iron-carbon phase diagram. It begins with more complex diagrams and progresses to a simple diagram. The diagram shows the different phases of iron (ferrite and austenite), pearlite, and cementite that form at different temperatures and carbon concentrations. Understanding the phase diagram allows engineers to heat treat steels to achieve desired properties for different applications.

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    This document discusses the iron-carbon phase diagram. It begins with more complex diagrams and progresses to a simple diagram. The diagram shows the different phases of iron (ferrite and austenite), pearlite, and cementite that form at different temperatures and carbon concentrations. Understanding the phase diagram allows engineers to heat treat steels to achieve desired properties for different applications.

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    This document discusses the iron-carbon phase diagram. It begins with more complex diagrams and progresses to a simple diagram. The diagram shows the different phases of iron (ferrite and austenite), pearlite, and cementite that form at different temperatures and carbon concentrations. Understanding the phase diagram allows engineers to heat treat steels to achieve desired properties for different applications.

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    The Iron-Carbon Phase

    Diagram
    Steven Shepherd
    December 06, 2005
    A Very Complex Iron-Carbon Phase
    Diagram (1992)
    A Slightly Less Complex Phase
    Diagram
    A Simple Iron-Carbon Phase
    Diagram
    A Very Simple Iron-Carbon Phase
    Diagram
    “The” Iron-Carbon Phase Diagram
    Why do We Care?
    • Iron
    – Properties of Iron
    • Steel
    – Ferrite, pearlite, cementite, austenite
    – Can heat-treat so it can suit its
    application
    – Good steel versus bad steel
    • 1% C
    • Bessemer Process
    Ferrite and Austenite
    • Ferrite
    – Known as α-iron
    – Pure iron at room temperature
    – Body-centered cubic structure
    • Austenite
    – Known as γ-iron
    – 910°C
    – Face-centered cubic
    – Much softer than ferrite
    • More easily worked
    • blacksmithing
    Pearlite and Cementite
    •Pearlite (Perlite)
    –Pearly lustre in the
    microscope
    •Interference of light in its
    regular layers
    –Most common constituent
    of steel
    –Gives steel most of its
    strength
    –“layered mixture of ferrite
    and cementite of average
    composition 0.83% carbon”
    –Point D
    •Cementite
    –Hard, brittle, white
    –melts at 1837°C
    – density of 7.4 g/cc
    –On the phase diagram,
    cementite corresponds to a
    vertical line at 6.7% C
    –Engineers only care about
    compounds with less carbon
    Interesting Information
    •Left of point B = a steel
    –Heated  uniform
    austenite phase
    •Right of point B = a
    cast-iron
    •Point E = eutectic
    –Lowest fusing T (1130 C)
    •Liquid left of E
    austenite & ledeburite
    •Right of Ecementite &
    ledeburite
    •Eutectoids
    –Like eutectic
    •No melting
    –Normalization of steel
    (723 C)
    •No melting, just hot
    enough to become
    austenite (>1130 C)
    More Interesting Information
    •Around Point C
    –looks like an
    inverted eutectoid--
    not a eutectoid
    –What happens at
    point C is called a
    peritectic reaction, as
    δ-iron is dissolved
    and austenite formed
    Interesting Sites Concerning
    Phase Diagrams

    • Interactive Phase Diagram--


    http://www.soton.ac.uk/~pasr1/intera
    ct.htm#map3d
    • Cellular Automata Phase Diagrams–
    http://www.physics.emory.edu/~week
    s/ca/ca.html
    Works Cited
    • http://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/
    mw1_ge/kap_8/illustr/
    phasendiagramm_fe.gif
    • http://www.roymech.co.uk/
    Useful_Tables/Matter/Phase_diagram.html
    • http://members.lycos.nl/cvdv/
    ironcarbondiagrams/Zhukov1992.htm
    • http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/bwk/materials/
    Teaching/media/wg02/f0100006.jpg
    • http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/
    phase.htm

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