Lab 1

Heat Treatment Report

Name: Dawei Wang
Date: Oct. 19th 2015

1. On the CCT diagram for the 0.45% C steel shown below,sketch approximate cooling curves for
the annealed(furnace cooled),normalized(air cooled),oil quenched and water quenched steel
samples.Use the following estimates of cooling times to go from the austenitizing
temperature(900) to room temperature(25) to determine the curves.Based on the CCT
diagram and cooling curves you sketched,predict the microstructure that should be present after
the four heat treatments(i-iv).Include a typical micrograph of the microstructure.

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Microstructure:
i:+P
ii:+P
iii:+P+B+M
iv:M
Typical micrograph:
2

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Pearlite:

Martensite:

Bainite:

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-ferrite:

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2. Calculate the average cooling rate(T/t) for each of the four cooling types(anneal,air,oil and
water) using the time estimates given in question #1.
i:T/t=(900-25)(243600)=0.01/s
ii:T/t=(900-25)(3060)=0.486/s
iii:T/t=(900-25)30=29.17/s
iv:T/t=(900-25)2=437.5/s

3.Tabulate and plot hardness (form first 3 heat treatment+AR&AN )vs.heat treatment.What
happens to the hardness as the sample are cooled faster?
Average

HRB/HRC

long

short

AC

86.73

71.23

HRB

OQ

98.65

76.23

HRB

WQ

47.60

39.15

HRC

AR

93.80

83.10

HRB

AN

77.33

61.86

HRB

The sample become harder when cooled faster.

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4.Plot hardness versus tempering temperature for the two steel compositions that were tempered
during lab.Include WQ as one of the temperatures.Discuss any trends you see in the data.

The hardness of the samples get smaller when the tempering temperature get greater.

5.Was there any difference in the overall response to he heat treatment (hardness) between the two
types of steel? If so, explain what and why?Identify them.
Yes. The long steel is harder than the short steel in the overall response to the heat treatments.The
steels get harder when there are more percentage of C in them.So the long sample is AISI-SAE
1045,the short sample is AISI-SAE 1018.

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Appendix
Heat treatment of steel Data Sheet
Name(s):Dawei Wang
Date of Experiment:Otc. 19th 2015
Group Number:1
My Heat Treatment(circle one):WT(300) short
H#1

H#2

H#3

Average

Scale(HRB/H
RC)

31.0

32.3

30.9

31.4

HRC