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International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT) – Volume 9 Number 15 - Mar 2014 Effect of Tempering Temperature on Mechanical Properties of Medium Carbon Steel S.A Tukur#,*1, M. M Usman*2, Isyaku Muhammad*3, N. A Sulaiman*4 #Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Nigeria * PG Student, School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou 121001, China Abstract— Untempered martensitic steels, while very hard are influencing factors in the choice of the quenching medium are too brittle to be useful for most applications. Most applications the kind of heat treatment, composition of the steel, the sizes require that quenched part be tempered, so as to impact some and shapes of the parts [7, 8]. toughness and further improve ductility. Current work reports In literature it is possible to find many works regarding the and analyzes results of mechanical testing was performed on [9– 11] quenching heat treatment with very encouraging results . variously heat treated medium carbon steel samples, to arrive at an optimum heat treatment strategy for judicious combination of Current processes leading to carbide spheroidisation rely on hardness and tensile properties. Tensile and hardness test diffusion of carbon in a work piece heated to a temperature specimens were fabricated using Lathe machine. These samples close to or slightly below Ac1 [12]. were subj