SLACK QUENCHING. The incomplete hardening of steel due to quenching from the austenitizing temperature at a rate slower than the critical cooling rate for the particular steel, resulting in the formation of one or more transformation products in addition to martensite.
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TRANSGRANULAR CRACKING. Cracking or fracturing that occurs through or across a crystal or grains. Also called transcrystalline cracking.
WORK HARDNESS. Hardness developed in metal resulting from cold working.
ACICULAR FERRITE. A highly substructed nonequaixed ferrite formed upon continuous cooling by a mixed diffusion and shear mode of transformation that begins at […]
TRANSGRANULAR FRACTURE. Fracture through or across the crystals or grains of a metal. Also called transcrystalline fracture or intracrystalline fracture.