STRAIN HARDENING. An increase in hardness and strength caused by plastic deformation at temperatures below the recrystallization range.
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TRANSFORMATION TEMPERATURE. The temperature at which a change in phase occurs. This term is sometimes used to denote the limiting temperature of a […]
SUPERHEATING. Heating above the temperature at which an equilibrium phase transformation should occur without actually obtaining the transformation.
TOTAL CARBON. The sum of the free and combined carbon (including carbon in solution) in a ferrous alloy.
TRANSFORMATION HARDENING. Heat treatment comprising austenitization followed by cooling under conditions such that the austenite transforms more or less completely into martensite and […]