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I .4 . .... 4 ..4 .. . . .. .. a . . ...... ....4.... 4 .4 . . 4 . . .. .. 4 ... . . ... ... ...... 1. 4. .4. 4 . .. .. . ........ ...» . ... 4 4 .. H. a -.. . a . 4 . .r , 4 4 4 .. 4L . 4 7.444ZJHC .2 Cm.) NCCWZM. C_N4N0m2 00 20.1.u.+m ~ PI! 16 The two heating curves show that there was some change taking place between 1000.? and 120an. It was impossible to observe any detail on the film. During the run the microscope had to be read- justed several times due to the eXpansion of the specimen. Very often this resulted in bringing a different field under observation that was originally observed. Thus, the film recorded a short length of one field, and then another, and not a continuous picture of the same field as desired. Figure 5, taken at 100 It shows a sample of low carbon steel after it was cooled from 1300.17. The grain structure is much smaller than in the original nital etched specimen. The pearlitic areas have completely disappeared. The grain boundaries are much larger than in a specimen etched with acid. Figure 6 shows the same spec- imen at l500 x. There appears to be small globules forms in the grain boundaries. The motion picture of this specimen showed a formation very similar to that shown in Figure 6. The first appearance of a heat etch was at about lOOOoF. There was no heat-etched pattern on the specimen when the film was started (BOOOF), but as the temperature increased, a faint pattern appeared, and as the temperature continued to rise it became more and more distinct until about 1250.1? when there seemed to be no further change. A sample of 0.14 carbon steel was placed in the furnace unetched I (D V t? o 17 and heated to MOO'F. The film obtained shows the heat-etch or net- work as it first starts to form between 1000’F and 1250: At about 13500F the microscope had to be refocused and a different field was obtained which did not appear to be the same as the original field. Figure 7 shows the structure at 100 x of a specimen after cooling frcm 15000F. It appears quite rough and the boundaries are not distinct. The pearlitic areas have completely disappeared. In Figure 8, photomicrograph taken at 500 X, there is some evidence of a second netawork or set of grain boundaries. Figure 9 taken at 1000.1 of the same area shows more clearly the roughened condition of the surface, and also the widening of the grain boundaries. There are also small globules formed, some in the grain boundaries, and some in the interior of the grains. These may be spheroids of cement- ite or may be caused by some surface phenamina. The film obtained during this trial shows the formation of the heat-etch or the recrys- talization, but it did not have very good detail. The film was started at BSd'F and was continuous until lSOOoF'was reached, after which temperature there seemed to be no further change. A double netawork or two sets of grain.boundaries are shown in Figure 12, a photomicrograph taken at 1000 X. The focal points of the two noteworks are different. ‘When the specimen was at the ele- vated temperature there was just one netawork or set of grain bound- aries and this appeared to be the one consisting of the wide grain boundaries. This indicated that one set was formed as the specimen ‘\ ; ._.-‘ zI. . " ”a. J "7 u x“ L? 11 ‘ ‘1 .r N. . . In! . 9‘ I "1‘4‘51‘! If s." ‘. 1k 1 . N .. _., . . .‘m' $.2'b7'JdI‘C l r ‘3." z ”3‘ '3' ' I'. 18 was heated up into the critical range and the other was formed as the specimen cooled. Figures 10 and 11 are photomicrographs of the same surface as above at 100 X and 500 X respectively. The entire surface appears to be quite rough. The darker portion, or where there appears to be more boundaries and where there seems to be more concentration of the globule formation, was the area originally occupied by the pearlite. Film Number.h, which was taken as the specimen was heated from 850 F to 1560 F, shows the change in structure as it took place on the surface. There is no evidence of a wave passing over the polished surface as it passed through the A} transformation. The change is gradual. The heat etch appears very faint at first and as the tem- perature increases it appears more distinct and shows better detail. Film Number 5 was taken as a sample of medium carbon steel was heated from h50 F to 1550 F. Before fiiis specimen was placed in the vacuum.flurnace it‘was etchedwwith a 2% solution of nital. Figure 13 is a photomicrograph of the specimen as it appeared before being placed in the furnace. The first part of the film.shows the struc- ture as brought out by the nital etch. It shows the pearlitic areas and the grain boundaries the same as in Figure 13. As the specimen was heated the pearlitic areas disappeared and the boundaries brought out by the etchant became indistinguishable from those caused by heating. The structure of the specimen when at 1500 F did not show any relation to the original structure. Figures 1h, 15, 16 and 17 are photomicrographs taken at 100 X, Iv, 1'..sz I‘LL) -.i .. 1 . . iii. 5.. .0 l! . ‘ \ ‘ . . IN a . ,.. ... . 4 .. a. ...w. r o ’ v- . ”Jun.” ...... that O . .b 7A.. .w. . _ «par ...9 sums/A. .U.’ .. .....3 . a ”mammary. f‘i 'TU.',‘e 14 . I“. t h 3 I (5 ‘ V‘ \,« "r: r ‘ l L,). ’ *‘ J 1? ‘ ‘ .\ Lgfi“ LO 0 V" . 3 I ~‘ . .)"(71+(_H . {j r-.-) -n.' t u-, v ,,A5 k' L r ( r~ ‘ F‘ be ' 5 (”l 19 500 X, 1000 x, and 2000 X respectively, after the specimen had cooled to room temperature. The structure shown in Figure 1h.bears. no relation to that as Shown in Figure 13, which gives evidence that a reaction had taken place at the surface. At the elevated temperature the polished surface is silver-white and there is no pearlitic formation. This may be due to the fact that all the pearl- ite has changed to austenite. After the specimen was cooled, the surface had the same silverdwhite appearance but no pearlite areas. This indicated that the surface of the specimen has been decar- burized. Further evidence of this decarburization is shown in Figure 18, a photomicrograph taken at 150 x of a medium.carbon steel after being heated in a vacuum.at 1560 F and cooled to room.temperature. This photcmicrograph also shows the globular formation in the grain boundaries and in the interior of the grains. Figures 19 and 20 are photomicrographs of the same area taken at 500 X and 1000 X. Film Number 6 is a record of the change in the structure of the polished surface of a steel sample. It is a continuous picture taken as the specimen was heated from 900 F to 1560 F. ‘At the start of the film the surface of the specimen was entirely devoid of detail except for the polishing scratches, but as the temperature increased a faint netawork formed the same as in the preceding trials. Film.Number 7 was taken in the same manner as the others. w \ k . 1 " 1 v .1 ‘1 . 0 ~ J . ."' 20 It shows the surface changes as the specimen was heated from.800°F to lSOO’F. The film shows fairly good detail except for the end portion, which is blurred due to vibration. In.most all of the films obtained, some frames were lighter than others due to unavoidable changes in the intensity of the light source which was operating on A. C. current. This seemed to be more prevalent when partly consumed carbon electrodes were used in the arc lamp. Figure 20 is a photomicrograph taken at 100 X of the specimen after it was removed from.the vacuum furnace. The surface was silver- white and showed rather fine grain structure. It appeared similar to ferrite, there being no pearlitic areas in evidence. The grain boundaries are much wider than those which are brought out by some acid etchant. Figuras22 and 23, taken at 500 X and 1000 x respect- ively, show the grain boundaries in much better detail. Figure 23 shows very clearly the double netswork and also the globular forma- tion in the grain boundaries. It shows that the spheriods are much more concentrated in the grain boundaries, if they are such, than through the interior of the grains. In the second set of grain boundaries there is no evidence of this globular formation. The boundaries appear similar to those brought by a liquid etchant. The two different sets of grain boundaries are apparently indepen- dent of each other. If the metal is crystalline or granular in nature and the boundaries of these grains are visable through the microscope, there must have been two reactions or changes which took "’(1 0.!» t. I:' ‘m hall‘s-‘— % a- -.. \ 1‘) {7"‘1 (:4 ‘ ,. 1V 21 place in order to give the two net-work formations. Figure 2b and 214a, photomicrographs taken at 14500 X of the same specimen as in Figures 21, 22 and 23, show more clearly the double net-work formation, the independency of the two, and the widened condition of one. Figure 25 is a photomicrograph of the same sample after it had been etched in 3% solution of picric acid for several seconds. The wide set of grain boundaries did not seem to be effected by the etchant but the other set seemed to be attacked and brought out more clearly and sharply. This indicated that the carbon had been removed from the wide grain boundaries. The structure of a specimen etched with a 2% solution of nital is shown in Figure 26. After taking this photomicrograph, the spec- imen was repolished and heated in a vacuum until a net—work could just be seen. Then the specimen was cooled in the vacuum to room temperature and examined. Figure 27 shows the net-work formed. The net-work formed by heating, or the heat-etch, does not appear to have any relation to the structure as brought out by the dzchant. The temperature of the specimen at which the net-work appeared was llOO.F. The sample was lightly polished with levigated alumina to ranove the heat etch, and then etched with a 2% solution of nital. Figure 28 shows the structure which is very similar to that shown in Figure 27, but it has no relation to that shown in Figure 26. As there is no relation between the structures shown in Figure 26 and 28, but both were brought out by etching with nital. there must have T... r - (“4+ :M'C I"! L I.) l ' l owl. 22 been some reaction which took place*when.the specimen was heated in the vacuum. This reaction must have taken place below the crit- ical-range because the highest temperature of the specimen was 1100’ F, unless the temperature at which.the A3 transformation takes place is lowered to llOO‘F when a sample of steel is heated in a vacuum. Figure 29 is a photomicrograph of the same specimen as in Figure 23 after it had been more deeply polished and etched with nital. The structure is not the same as in the preceding micro- graph, but there are some small pearlitic areas similar to those in Figure 26. As there has been a change in the surface metal and there is no evidence of carbon after the specimen was heated in a vacuum, the carbon must have been volatilized off. In Figure 29 there is no evidence of a second netawork formation or grain struc- ture. FiLm Number 8 was made as a specimen.of medium carbon steel was heated in a vacuum from 900.F to IhSOfF. It shows the netdwork formation as it started to form at about 10000F and continued until the specimen reached lDSOOF when there seemed to be no further change. It was attempted to obtain pictures as the specimen cooled, but this portion of the film proved unsatisfactory. The specimen contracted rather rapidly and the microscope had to be continually readjusted. The magnification on all films is approximately 100 x. This a was determined by placing a stage micrometer on the top of the 23 furnace and taking a short exposure. The ruled lines on the micro- meter are 0.1 mm. and 0.01 mm. apart and the fiLm shows them.tc be about 1 cm, and 1 mm. apart respectively, indicating a magnifica- tion of approximately 100 diameters. cryst gtma about us a iron ‘ criti 2h DISCUSSION If iron is cast, it forms grains of'gamma iron above 167OPF crystallizing with a face-centered cubic lattice. On cooling, gamma iron changes completely into a body-centered lattice at about 167d'F, and this transformation gives rise to entirely new grains. If the iron is kept below 1670’F, it behaves much like any other metal in a similar temperature range. On heating above about 1670'F, however, the structure again changes completely in- to new grains of gamma iron. Every time iron is caused to change from.one crystal lattice to the other a new set of grains is pro- duced. Thus every time a sample was heated up in a vacuum there was a complete change from the face-centered lattice of the alpha iron to the body-centered lattice of gamma iron if it passed the critical range. (8) The properties of iron are greatly influenced by small amounts of carbon. As most of the specimens used in this work con- tained 0.h.percent carbon, the temperature at which this change takes place is lowered to about 1390°F. ‘When this change takes place the metal expands because the body-centered arrangement of the atoms is not so closely packed as the face-centered arrangement. During the volume change the metal cools a slight degree. If a curve is plotted from time temperature data taken while a specimen is being heated at a constant rate, there will be a place in the curve where the temperature will remain constant or rise at a slower rate. This shows that the heat applied is being absorbed by the sreci .‘rcm parai berm heate highs atior time 01' se 8th taken Wit ties 25 specimen more rapidly than before, and that a change is taking place in the metal. This is shown by the two preceding curves, plotted from data taken while a specimen was heated in a vacuum at a com- paratively slow rate. The curves show that the change takes place between 1100° F and 1250° F while theoretically 1: th. metal was heated in air this change should take place from 100° to 200° F higher. This gives evidence that pressure effects the transform- ation temperature. Many unsuccessful attempts were made to obtain time temperature data as the specimen cooled, but the rate of cooling was too rapid and it could not be controlled with the apparatus used. Parker, in his work, showed that the transforma- tion temperature was lowered when the pressure was reduced. When a specimen was heated in a vacuum a distinct net-work or set of grain boundaries was formed which had no relation to the structure of the specimen before heating. Thus a change must have taken place. It might have been a volume change, but as the tem- perature had not reached the critical range so that the space lat- tice would change, there must have been some other reason for it. When foreign atoms dissolve in a metal to form solid solutions, if the lattice expands or the cube edge is increased, the solid solution is termed interstitial. If it is of the substitution type, however, it expands if the volume of the foreign atoms is greater than the volume of the atoms of the solvent, and contracts if the volume of the foreign atom is analler. locat latti solut stiti isz have inter mid C. O ’ (IE: buck] Poun: 26 In a substitution solid solution the atoms of the solute may replace sane of the atoms of the solvent in the space lattice. In an interstitial solid solution the atoms of the solute may be located at random, except at the lattice points within the space lattice of the solvent. There is a small amount of carbon in solution if ferrite or alpha iron. Carbon in iron forms an inter- stitial solid solution. As the surface of the sample. is decarbur- ized when heated, the space lattice of the iron remaining must have a decreased cube edge and thus a decrease in volume. The interior of the specimen is not decarburized and when heated ‘would increase in volume due to normal expansion. These volume changes acting in different directions might account for the buckled appearance of the surface below the critical range. It is held that it is impossible for an.intermetallic comp pound, as such, to dissolve in a metal, as there is no room with- in the space lattice for admission of molecules. The carbide Fegc could not, as such, dissolve in iron. The carbon.must be present in atomic dispersion which implies the dissociation of F630 previous to the formation of a solid solution and necessarily the formation of that compound as carbon comes out of solution. As carbon is almost insoluble in alpha iron or ferrite, it must be in the carbide form, and in normalized steel it is located in the grain.boundaries and pearlite areas. 'When.a sample of steel is heated in a vacuum decarburization takes place. This may the he “‘1! one ls1 tom the tall 27 account for the globular formation in the grain boundaries as shown in Figure 21;. If the carbon leaves the metal as carbon, and not as the carbide, it must leave the iron that it was combined with in the grain boundaries. If this is the case it is apparent that the glob- ular formation would be concentrated in the grain boundaries because that is where the carbide is concentrated. When steel is heated the carbide must become more and more un- stable until the transformation range is reached and it decomposes. The carbon is in atomic dispersion so that it can go into solution in game iron. As the carbon is in atomic dispersion and unstable at the transformation range, decarburization would take place more rapidly than if the temperature were above the transformation range, since the carbon is then in solution in the gamma iron and more stable. The assumption is made that there is a certain amount of carbon that goes into solution. After a sample of steel was heated in a vacuum above the A3 transformation and cooled there were two grain structures present. One had wide grain boundaries and the other small and sharp bound- aries. Whm observing a specimen as it was heated, there was but one visable structure, the grain boundaries of which became wider as the temperature increased. The widening of the boundaries may have been due to the decarburization. If the second net-work was formed as the specimen was heated, it should appear wide as well as the first, but as it did not, it may have formed due to the recrys- tallisation above the transformation point. The second net-work may 28 also have formed as the specimen cooled. It would form.a different pattern because the composition of the surface was not the same when the specimen.cooled as it was on heating, due to the loss of carbon. Figure 30 is a photomicrograph taken at 2500 x of a section perpen- dicular to a heat-etched surface. Nickel was plated on the surface to preserve the existing structure. The decarburized layer and roughened surface are plainly visible. The roughened condition of the surface may be due to the following: volume change, decarbur- isation, volatilization of the surface metal, or to the escaping of "occluded" gases. ry1 . ‘ ‘. , .— . I r.— s I -. fl 1' 29 SUMMARY This method of investigation can not be readily applied to alloys because of the surface changes. The surface may not show the condition of the interior of the metal. It could be applied more easily to pure metals and much better results obtained. When a sample of steel passed through the A; transformation there was no evidence of a wave passing over the surface. There are two distinct and independent net-works or grain structures formed. One as the sample was heated and the other as it cooled. A thin layer of the surface metal is decarburised. Decar- burisation takes place more rapidly within the critical range. Two suggestions that might help in carrying out mrther investigation are: (a) A variable resistance should be used so that the heating and cooling rate can be more closely controlled, and (b) a means of preventing the camera from vibrating due to the motor and gear train, should be devised. This might be accom- plished by placing small pieces of rubber sponge between the cam- era and the camera wpport. l. 2. 3. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 30 BIBLIOGRAPHY Bausch.and Lomb Optical Company. Motion Pictures of Micror- ganisms. Epstein, Samuel. The Alleys of Iron and Carbon. McGrawa Hill Book Company, New York, 1930. Clark, K. L. A Study of Micro-Changes in Hardened High carbon Steel at Elevated Temperature under a Reduced Pres- sure. M. S. Thesis; Library, Midnigan State College, East Lansing, 1935. Howe, H. H. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1916. Jefferies, Zay and Archer, R. S. Science of'Metals. McCraw-Hill Book Co., NeW'York, l92h. Parker, T. D. The Structure of Steel at Elevated Temper- ature Under a Reduced Pressure. M. S. Thesis, Library, Michigan State College, East Lansing, 1933. Rawdon and Scott. Microstructure of Iron and Mild Steel at High Temperature, Bureau of standards, Scientific Paper NO e 8556. Roger, B. A. Metallographic Examination of Specimens at High Temperature; Metal and.Alloys Vol. 2 No. l, 1931. Sauveur, Albert. The Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1935. Wiester, H. J. Martensite Forms Instantly, Metal Progress Vol. xx111 No. 2, 1933. 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