(f) uses ANS✔✔ (a) Contain copper, vanadium, nickel, and molybdenum.
(b) Are stronger than plain low carbon steels.
(c) May be strengthened by heat treatment.
(d) They are ductile, formable, and machinable.
(e) They are more resistant to corrosion than plain carbon steels.
(f) They are used in bridges, towers, and pressure vessels
Plain and heat treatable medium carbon steels
(a) wt % C
(b) microstructure
(c) properties of plain steel
(d) how to make them heat treatable
(e) properties of alloyed heat treatable steel
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(f) uses of heat treatable steel ANS✔✔ (a) 0.25-0.60 wt % C
(b) Often used with tempered martensite microstructures.
(c) Plain steels have low hardenability and can only be heat treated in thin sections with rapid quenching rates.
(d) Adding chromium, nickel, and molybdenum improve the capacity to be heat treated.
(e) Heat treated steel is stronger and harder than low/medium carbon steel, but is less tough and ductile.
(f0 Applications include railway wheels and tracks, gears, crankshafts, bolts, hammers, blades, hand tools, and pistons.
Anything that needs high strength, wear resistance, and toughness.
Plain high carbon steels
(a) wt % C
(b) properties
(c) heat treatment ANS✔✔ (a) 0.6 - 1.4 wt % C
(b) Hardest, strongest, and least ductile of carbon steels. Very wear resistant.
(c) Almost always used in a hardened and tempered condition.
Tool high carbon steels
(a) composition
(b) properties
(c) uses ANS✔✔ (a) Tool and die steels contain chromium, vanadium, tungsten, and molybdenum.
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