effect of heat treatment on fe–0.3%p–0.14%c alloy热处理对铁的影响- 0.3% - c - p - 0.14%合金.pdfVIP

Journal of Minerals Materials Characterization Engineering , Vol. 9, No.9, pp.787-794, 2010 Printed in the USA. All rights reserved   Effect of Heat Treatment on Fe–0.3%P–0.14%C Alloy 1 2 1 2 Yashwant Mehta *, K. Chandra , Rajinder Ambardar P. S. Mishra 1Department of Metallurgical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, Hazratbal, Srinagar, J K– 190006, India 2Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand -247667, India *Corresponding Author: yashwant.mehta@ ABSTRACT Modern iron and steel industry is based on the iron – carbon diagram. However, a major problem associated with Fe-C alloys is that they corrode and cause losses to the tune of 5% of GDP to the world. Ancient Indian iron (Fe-P-C) artifacts like the Delhi Iron Pillar have withstood atmospheric corrosion for about 1600 years. Phosphorous and carbon are used as the alloying elements for strengthening iron and imparting corrosion resistance to it. Therefore, there is a need to understand the Iron-Phosphorous-Carbon alloy system and to develop strong and corrosion resistant, iron products. In the present study, Fe-0.3%P- 0.14%C alloy is subjected to heat treatment schedule by varying the rate of cooling after 30 minutes of heating at 800 oC. Microstructural characterization is carried out on the heat treatment samples. The studies reveal a higher concentration of carbides in the form of pearlite formed at the grain boundaries of the ferr ite grains in the air c