Creep & Spheroidization
Creep & Spheroidization
Creep & Spheroidization
Albet Ahmad
creep is not too important with most ferrous metals unless the
operating temperature is above 800 oF (426 oC). Kenneth G.
Engineering materials properties and selection 5th editon.
Page 41
the dislocation creep mechanism is operative at intermediate
and high stress and at temperatures above 0.4 of the melting
point and is the only mechanism of significancefor most
enginnering materials and applications. R. Viswanathan,
Damage Mechanism and life assesment of high temperature
components, Page 62
Photomicrograph of a steel having a spheroidite microstructure. The small particles are cementite; the
continuous
phase is ferrite. (Copyright 1971 by United States Steel Corporation.)
A photomicrograph of a pearlitic steel that has partially transformed to spheroidite. 2000. Calister
Materials Science and Engineering 7th edition, page 311.
0 % C (500X)
1,4 % C
(1000X)
0.8 % C
0.38 % C
(635X)