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    High carbon steels contain between 0.70% to 1.05% carbon. They are very hard when fully heat treated, but also brittle. Hardness can be obtained at the expense of toughness. Hardening depth is poor, limiting the steel's uses. Carbon content determines the microstructure and properties of steel. Higher carbon steel contains more pearlite and cementite, increasing hardness but decreasing ductility compared to lower carbon steels. Key properties like density, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion, strength and ductility vary with carbon percentage.

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    High carbon steels contain between 0.70% to 1.05% carbon. They are very hard when fully heat treated, but also brittle. Hardness can be obtained at the expense of toughness. Hardening depth is poor, limiting the steel's uses. Carbon content determines the microstructure and properties of steel. Higher carbon steel contains more pearlite and cementite, increasing hardness but decreasing ductility compared to lower carbon steels. Key properties like density, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion, strength and ductility vary with carbon percentage.

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    High carbon steels contain between 0.70% to 1.05% carbon. They are very hard when fully heat treated, but also brittle. Hardness can be obtained at the expense of toughness. Hardening depth is poor, limiting the steel's uses. Carbon content determines the microstructure and properties of steel. Higher carbon steel contains more pearlite and cementite, increasing hardness but decreasing ductility compared to lower carbon steels. Key properties like density, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion, strength and ductility vary with carbon percentage.

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    Steel

    ScienceMaterial Science- MECH 2104

    High carbon steels, is steel-containing carbon in the range of 0.70 to 1.05% and is especially classed as high carbon steel. In the fully heat-treated condition it is very hard and it will withstand high shear and wear and will thus be subjected to little deformation. Moreover, at maximum hardness, the steel is brittle and if some toughness is desired it must be obtained at the expense of hardness. Depth hardening ability (normally termed as hardenability) is poor, limiting the use of this steel. Furthermore, as it has been seen that hardness, brittleness and ductility are very important properties as they determine mainly the way these different carbon content steels are used. Considering the microstructure of slowly cooled steel; for mild steel, for instance, with 0.2% carbon. Such steel consists of about 75% of proeutectoid ferrite that forms above the eutectoid temperature and about 25% of pearlite (pearlite and ferrite being microstructure components of steel). When the carbon content in the steel is increased, the amount of pearlite increases until we get the fully pearlitic structure of a composition of 0.8% carbon. Beyond 0.8%, high carbon steel contain proeutectoid cementide in addition to pearlite. However, in slowly cooled carbon steels, the overall hardness and ductility of the steel are determined by the relative proportions of the soft, ductile ferrite and the hard, brottle cementite. The cementite content increases with increasing carbon content, resulting in an increase of hardness and a decrease of ductility, as we go from low carbon to high carbon steels. Physical properties of plain carbon steel. There are also other properties of plain carbon steel that needs to be considered and these properties are being illustrated as shown in table 1 below: Material Density 103 kgm-3 Thermal conductivi ty Jm-1K1 -1 s 50 48 46 Thermal expansion 10-6K-1 11.7 11.3 10.8 Youngs modulus GNm-2 210 210 210 Tensile strength MNm-2 350 600 800 % elongation

    0.2% C Steel 0.4% C Steel 0.8% C Steel

    7.86 7.85 7.84

    30 20 8

    (Source: Material Science And Engineering, 4th Edition, V.Raghavan, p. 396)


    Prepared by: Sblin. B / Jahazeeah. Y / Sujeebun. S / Manohar /Wong Ky. B 3

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