G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering , Nagpur.

Department of Mechanical Engineering

ENGINEERING METALLURGY
LABORATORY MANUAL
Semester- III

Experiment No 1
Aim: - Study of Metallurgical Microscope
Introduction: - The metallurgical microscope is the most important tool of the
metallurgist. It consist an objective and an eye-piece. Its primary function is to
reveal the details of the object. The clarity and the extent to which the details are
revealed depends on the degree to which these optical systems are created.
Principle: - A horizontal beam of light from the light source is reflected by means
of a plane glass reflector downwards through the microscope objective on the
surface of the specimen some of these incident light reflected from the specimen
surface will be magnified and passing through the plane glass reflector and
magnified again by upper lens system of the eye-piece.
Constructional Details: - The table type microscopes are consist of
1. Stage:- A flat movable table supporting specimen. This can be moved up or
down by knobs.
2. Tubes :- The vertically movable tube containing eyepiece, objective and
plane reflector. The tube length varies from 160 mm to 250 mm.
3. Rough & fine focus Adjustments - The limbs of microscope carry the
coarse & fine adjustments to facilitate the
4. Objective The body tube carries revolving nose piece carrying the three
objectives. This enables quick change of
the objective which helps for a quick resolving the structure of
metal, the magnification of lenses is
enlarged on focal length of the lens used
The important properties of an objective are1) Magnifying Power
2) Resolving Power.
It is the property by which an objective shows distinctly
represented two small adjacent bonds in the structure of the object. This is
usually expressed as number of lines per mm that can be separated which
depends on the numerical operator, the wavelength of the light used. Resolution
is particularly important during the microscopy of the micro constituents of metals
consisting of fine lamination with core resolution which appears as one uniform
area, where as an objective with higher numerical appearance reveals deeper
nature of the structure.

5. Eyepiece - It is named, as it is near to the eye. It is made up of various

Powers such as 5, 10, 15 etc.
Uses The metallurgical microscope is useful in quality control department
in Industries to observe & study
1) Differential phases 2) Porosity or defects.
All these have a great effect on mechanical properties of material
List of Modern Microscopes
i) Watson Royal Microscope.
ii) Van Lanes Hock Microscope.
iii) Glass led Microscope.
iv) Baker series Microscope.
v) Leitr Microscope.

Experiment No. 02

Aim Preparation of a Specimen for metallographic examination.

Introduction Metallographic or microscopy consists of the microscopic study
of the Structural characteristics of material or an alloy. The microscope is thus
the most important tool of a metallurgist from both, scientific & technical study
point view. It is possible to determine grain size & the size, shape & distribution
of various phases & inclusions which have a great effect on the mechanical
properties of metal. The microstructure will reveal the mechanical & thermal
treatment of the metal & it may be possible to predict its behavior under a given
set of conditions.
Experience had indicated the success in microscopic study depends upon
the case taken in the preparation of specimen. The most expensive microscope
will not reveal the structure of a specimen that has been poorly revealed .The
procedure to be followed in the preparation of a specimen is comparatively
similar and simple & involves a technique which is developed only after constant
practice. The ultimate objective is to produce a flat, scratch free, mirror like
surface. The steps involved or required to prepare a metallographic specimen
properly are covered in the coming section explained below.
Sampling The choice of sample for microscopic study may be very important.
If a failure is to be investigated the sampling should be chosen as close as
possible to the area of the failure & should be compared with one taken from the
normal section. If the material is soft, such as non ferrous metals or alloy & nonheat treated steels, the section is obtained by manual hack sawing /power saw. If
the material is hard, the section may be obtained by use of an abrasive cut off
wheels. This wheel is thin disk of suitable cutting abrasive rotating at high speed.
The specimen should be kept cool during the cutting operation.
Rough Grinding Whenever possible the specimen should be of a size &
shape that is convenient to handle. A soft sample may be made flat by slowly
moving it up to & back across the surface of a flat smooth file. The soft hard may
be rough ground on a belt sander with specimen kept cool by frequent dipping in
water during the grinding operation. In all grinding & polishing operation, the
specimen should be moved perpendicular to the existing scratches this will
facilitate, recognition of stage when the deeper scratches are replaced by
shallower one characteristic of the finer abrasives. The rough grinding is
continued until the surface is flat & free from wire brushes & all scratches due to
hacksaw or cutoff wheel are no longer visible.

Intermediate Polishing After the previous processes the specimen is

polishing on a series of emery paper containing successively finer abrasive ( SiC) . The first paper is usually no. 1 than 1/ 0, 2/0, 3/0, & finally 4/0.. The
intermediate polishing operation using emery paper is usually done dry. However
in certain case such as preparation of soft material , Silicon Carbide has greater
removal rate & as it is resin bonded , can be used with a lubricant , which
prevents overshooting of the sample, minimizes shearing of soft metals & also
provides a rising action to flush away surface removal product so the paper
willnt be clogged.
Fine polishing - The time consumed & the success of fine polishing depends
largely on the case that we exercised during the previous polishing processes.
The final approximation to the flat , scratch free surface is obtained by the use of
a wet rotating wheel covered with a special cloth that is charged by carefully
sized abrasive particles. A wide range of abrasive is available for final polishing,
while many will do a satisfying job, these appear to be presence of gamma form
of aluminum-oxides (Al2O3), for ferrous & copper based materials & Cerium oxide
for Aluminum, Magnesium & their alloys, other final polishing abrasives often
used are diamond , chromium oxide & magnesium oxide etc.
A choice of proper polishing cloth depends upon the particular material
being polished & the purpose of metallographic study. Many cloths are available
of varying lap or pile, from those having no pile, such as silk, to those of
intermediate pile such as broad cloth, billiard cloth, canvas cloth & finally to a
deep pile such as velvet synthetic clothes are also available for general purpose
of which two under the trival names of gamal & micro cloth are most widely used
.
Etching The purpose of etching is to make the many structural characteristics
of the metal or alloy visible. The process should be such that the various parts of
the microstructure may be clearly differentiated. This is to subject the polished
surface to chemical action.
In the alloys composed of two or more shapes. The competent are
revealed during etching by a preferential attack of one or more of the constituents
by the reagent because of difference in chemical composition of the phases. In
uniform single phase alloy contact is obtained and the grain boundaries are
made visible because of difference in the rate at which various grains are
attacked by the reagent This difference in the rate of attack by reagent which is
mainly associated with angle of the different grain structure section to the plane
of the polished surface. Because of chemical attack of the chemical reagent the
grain boundary appears as valleys in the polished surface light from the
microscope hitting the side of these valleys will be reflected but of the
microscope making the grain boundaries appears dark lines
The section of the appropriate etching reagent is determined by metal or
alloys & the specific structure desired for viewing.

Experiment No. -3
Aim: Preparation of Mounted samples with the help of mounting
press/cold setting resins.
Theory- Specimens that are very small or awkwardly shaped should be
mounted to favorite, intermediate & final polishing wires small rods steel, sheet
metal specimens, thin sections etc. must be approximately mounted in a suitable
material or rigidly damped in a mechanical mount
Synthetic plastic materials applied in a special mounting press will yield a
mount of uniform convenient size (usually 1 inch or 1.25 inch or 1.5 inch. in
diameter) for handling in subsequent polishing operation. These mounts when
properly made are very resistant to attack by etching reagent ordinarily used. The
most common thermosetting resin for mounting is Bakelite. Bakelite molding
powders are available in variety of colors which simplifies the identification of
mounted specimen. The specimen & the correct amount of bakelite powder are
available in variety of cloves which simplifies the identification of mounted
specimen. The specimen & the correct amount of bakelite powder are placed in
the cylinder of the mounting press. The temperature is gradually1500 C & a
molding pressure of about 4000 PSI is applied simultaneously since bakelite is
set & curved when this temperature is reached, the specimen mount may be
ejected from the molding die which is still hot.
Lucite is the most common thermosetting plastic resin for mounting. It is
completely transparent when properly mounted. This transparency is useful when
it is polished or when it is desirable for any other reason to see the entire
specimen in the mould mount unlike the thermosetting plastic, the thermosetting
resin dont under go curing at the molding temperature, rather they set on
cooling. The specimen & a proper amount of Lucite powder are placed in the
mounting press & are subjected to the same temperature & pressure as for
Bakelite (1500 c, 4000 PSI) After this has been reached, the heating coil is
removed & cooling fins are placed around the cylinder to cool the mount to about
750 c in about 7 minutes while the molding pressure is maintained. Then the
mount be rejected from the mould, ejecting the mount while still hot, or allowing it
to cool slowly in the molding cylinder to ordinary temperature before ejection will
cause mount to remain opaque.
Small specimens may be continently mounted for metallographic
preparation in a laboratory made damping device. Thin sheet specimens when
mounted in a damping device, are usually alternated with metal. Filler sheet
which have approximately the same hardness as these specimens. The use of
filler sheet will preserve surface irregularities of the specimen & will prevent to
some extent the edges of the specimen from becoming rounded during polishing.

Experiment No.- 4
Aim: Study and drawing of microstructures of Steels.
Draw Iron Carbon Diagram / Fe-Fe3C/ Iron-Iron Carbide Diagram and show the
range of following steels on it
1. Hypo eutectoid
2. Eutectoid and
3. Hypereutectoid steels
Also draw the microstructures of

1. Hypo eutectoid Steel

2. Hypo eutectoid Steel

3. Hypo eutectoid Steel

(0.2% C)

(0.4 % C)

(0.6% C)

4. Eutectoid Steel

5. Hypereutectoid Steel

(0.8% C)

(> 0.8% C)

Experiment No. :- 5
Aim: Study and drawing of microstructures of Cast Iron..

Draw the microstructures of following Cast Iron

1. White Cast Iron

2.Grey Cast Iron

3. Malleable Cast Iron

4. Nodular Cast Iron

5. Ferritic Grey Cast Iron

6. Pearlitic Grey Cast Iron

7. Ferrito pearlitic Grey Cast Iron

Experiment No. :- 6
Aim: Study of effect of Annealing & Normalizing on properties of
the steel
.
Equipment Used for Annealing AND Normalizing
: Muffle Furnace
Equipment For checking Hardness after Annealing and Normalizing
: Rockwell Hardness Tester

Theory Annealing in general, involves heating to sufficient high temperatures

Holding at this temperature & finally cooling at a very slow rate. The
temperature to which steel is heating & holding time are determined by
various factors such as the chemical composition of the steel, size & shape
of steel component & final properties desired. Annealing can form either the
final treatment or a preparatory step for further treatment. The various
purposes of this treatment are
i)
ii)
iii)
iv)
v)
vi)

To relive internal stresses developed

machining, forging, rolling or welding etc.
To improve or restore ductility or toughness
To enhance machinability.
To eliminate chemical non-uniformity.
To refine grain size
To reduce gaseous content in steel.

during

solidification,

Types of Annealing
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Full Annealing
Isothermal Annealing
Diffusion Annealing
Partial Annealing
Re crystallization Annealing

Normalizing It is the process of heating steel to about 40 0 - 50 0 c above

upper critical temperature ( A 3) holding for proper time & then cooling it in air
or slightly agitated air to room temperature or air volume. After normalizing
the resultant microstructure should be pearlitic. This is particularly important

for some alloy steels which are air hardened by nature for such steels, cooling
in air dont lead to normalized structure. Slower cooling rates are read since
the temperature involved in this process is more than that for normalizing, the
homogeneity as austenitic increases & it results in better dispersion. Results
in enhanced mechanical properties. The grain size in finer in normalized
structure that in annealing grain size of normalized steel is governed by
section thickness. As cooling rates differ considerably from case to case,
there is variation in grain size of normalizing steel over its cross section.
Refinement of grain size is on of the most important objectives of normalizing
& it is to be a great extent due to high temperature involved in these operation
are subjected to a great extent .
Normalizing treatment is frequently applied to steel in order to gain
refinement, improvement in mach inability & enhanced mechanical properties
such as hardness, strength & toughness.

Experiment No. - 07
Aim: Study of Pack carburizing of steel samples.

Carburizing Medium- Charcoal, Petroleum Coke

Energizer Barium chloride (BaCO3) 10 -15 %
The box containing the part to be treated which are packed with
Carburizing medium are placed in the furnace & heated to the desired
temperature for carburization. This temperature is high enough to form austenite
.The parts are maintained at this temperature till desired degree of penetration is
achieved. Although, charcoal is basic acceptance of any carburizing compound
experiment have show that no carbon is absorbed by steel if all air is removed
from carburinsing box . It shows that there is no direct penetration of carbon to
steel. It is probable that the carbon absorption at the surface occurs by reaction
between iron (Fe) & carbon monoxide, the later serving as an active carrier of
carbon or carbon monoxide & carbon

C + O2 = CO2

-----------------(1)

CO2 + C = 2CO

-----------------(2)

At carburizing temperature, this reaction always goes to right. Carbon

Monoxide is free to combine with iron.

2 CO + 3Fe = Fe3 C + CO2

---------------(3)

The carbon is not form of iron carbide but is in elemental form dissolved in
gamma forming austenite. As the carbon content at the interface between solid &
gas is increased, the carbon by diffusion migrates towards region of lower carbon
concentration i. e. centre of part being carburized; CO2 produced by this reaction
is liberated at surface & reacts with carburizing compound to from more CO at
expense of carbon of charcoal. The penetration of carbon into steel depends on
temperature, time & Carburizing agent. The boxes covered by lids & lusted
(sealed & airtight) by fire flame to exclude air & escape of gases. Box heated
unto 900 0 950 0 C requires time of 6 15 hrs depending on case depth. A

portion of the part which doesnt need to be hardened is covered & protected by
mixture of asbestos & fire plate or copper plating (0.003 inches).

Energizer Ba CO3 = Ba O + CO 2

------------------------(4)

After decomposition of BaCO3 it provides source of CO2 which reacts with

CO for Carburizing.
Advantages - 1) Case thickness of 0.16 is possible, so more grinding
allowances are Possible.
2) Negligible dimension change during carburizing, distortion may
Occur during heat treatment.
3) This process is used for gears, camshaft & bearing
manufacturing
4) No special equipment are required.
Disadvantages 1) Process is Batch Type.
2) Case carburized layer is not uniform
.
3) Required very long time cycle
4) Carburized part have tendency to form grinding cracks
during after hardening
.

Experiment No. 8
Aim: Determination of Harden ability of steel by Jominy end Quench
Test
Theory :- When a piece of steel of any appreciable size is heated to its
austenization temperature & then quenched, the cooling rates during quenching
vary across the cross section. The cooling rate at the surface & the center are
not same. The difference in their rate increases with rise in severity of quenches
or decreases in the speed of heat absorption. At the centre of the cross section,
the cooling rate is slowest. This may give rise to the formation of pearlite.
The relatively permanent & most common method of determining the
hard ability of steel is the Quench test. This is also called as Jominy End
Quench Test. In this test, the steel bar of 1 inch diameter & 4 inch long is
heated to proper austenization temperature. After being soak for sufficient time
the specimen is quickly placed in a fixture as shown in figure. A water jet is
opened quickly. Water comes out at a constant pressure through the orifice of
inch diameter. The distance between orifice and bottom of steel is 0.5 inch. The
temperature of water is kept around 240 C (R.T). A stream of water strikes at
lower end of specimen. The end is quenched and is continued to about 20 min.
to cool.
Figure shows the typical Jominy curve for a no. of AISI steel. Jominy
curved is strictly valid only for a given heat of particular steel, because other is in
tolerance range. In chemical composition which allows the appropriate range of
hardness. Figure shows the harden ability for AIST 4145-H steel. Harden ability
occurs for all steel will lies within the range, for many commercial grades of steel.
Harden ability limits of specimen standards have been adopted by the society of
automotive Engineerings (SAE). These limits are termed as Harden ability
Bands.
Attempts have been made by several words correlate the cooling rates in
the different distances along the quenched end of Jominy bar with the cooling
rates at different distances of the cylindrical bar. It can be quenched end of
Jominy bar with cooling rates at different distances in two steel rods are same
then the cooling conditions are also identical at these portions
Determination of Harden ability:-.
When a appreciable size is heated to the austenization temperature and then
quenched, the cooling rates varies across the surface. The cooling rate at the
center and surface are not the same. The difference in these rates increases with
the rise in severity of quench and decreases with speed of heat absorption. At
the center of cross section, the cooling rate is slowest. This may give rise to the
formation of pearlite. Marten site may be formed on surface and hence gradient
of hardness exist from the surface to centre.

Since each grade of steel has its own transformation, hardness

across cross section. Harden ability of steel is measure of this depth. Properly it
may be designed as the susceptibility of steel to harden ability of steel is
measured of this depth and distribution of hardness across the cross section. It is
not related to maximum hardness and the term hardness and harden ability term
should be clearly distinguished.
The maximum hardness depends upon carbon content in the steel. It
can be achieved by fulfilling the following conditions
i)
All the carbon is solution of austenite.
ii)
Critical cooling rate is achieved
iii)
No retained austenite is present after quenching.
Harden ability on other hand depends upon the addition of alloy element and
grain size of austenite. Besides the coolant used for quenching, the size of the
specimen and criteria used for assessment of harden ability also affects the law
of harden ability.
If drastic cooling is carried out, martensite can form at the centre of crosssection of steel because the cooling rate at the centre may be exceeded the
critical cooling rate and the drastic quenching may give rise to other under
effects such as warping and cracking of steel is reflecting by its quenching ability
to harden throughout its cross-section . While avoiding quenching and deep
hardened steel in low hardening steel depth of hardening steel is uniform through
out the cross-section.
.
A number of alloy steels come under the category of deep hardened steel.
In shallow hardening steel, the narrow zone when the surface transform to
martensite, pearlite transformation occurs in and around the centre. In
intermediate zone, the austenite transformation takes place at high temperature
and the remaining at low temperature range. In these zones the hardness
depends upon the relative amount of martensite and pearlite phase. In deep
hardening steel formation and marten site mends deep into the section.
The martensite and pearlite region can be easily distinguished in steel
section by
1) Etching the steel section and viewing microstructure.
2) Sudden fall in hardness of steel due to increase of pearlite content in the
narrow zone of Split transformation
3) By structure of sample micro structured steel containing 50% marten site and
50% Pearlite at brittle to ductile transformation region.

Experiment No. -9
Aim: Tensile test on mild steel & Aluminum Test Specimen

Objective To observe the behavior of mild steel & Aluminum under gradual axial
tension to plot & interpret the stress strain curve. To calculate physical
quantities.
Apparatus Universal testing machine, venire caliper, steel rule

Theory Stress: Force per unit area.

Torque acting through a small area within a plane.
It can be divide it in to two components parallel & normal. The plane
called Normal & shear stress respectively.
.
Strain It is a measure of change of size of body to its original size or shape.
True stress & strain The continual tensile test given valuable information upto the
point of yielding, beyond this point other stress value are falls since the actual cross
sectional area reduces at that moment of loading. The true stress is by dividing the cross
sectional at the normal of the loading. True strain determined by the change in length
divide by immediately proceeding length.
Theory Universal testing machineUniversal testing machine designed for tension, compression, hardness & bending test
on metallic material & others. Together with a variety of optional, the machine is
provided a number of tests on the non metallic materials like plastic, rubber, wood
etc. The loading method employed hydraulically transmission system in which the
loading rate is widely adjustable, smooth & simple. Higher mechanical efficiency is
available & greater load is handled properly with the load weighing mechanisms a
load being applied to it than transformed into a change in oil pressure whose force is
balanced with the hydraulic system and the moment of force of rise of pendulum.
This mechanism is provided with an attachment called the load calibration unit which is
prominently designed as a guide to loading rate measurements and to constantly control
the loading rates thus a variety of motors behind it and speed, setting duties or control
panel. In case if reinforcement bars, yield pt. is measured by the drop of beam or
Hall of the pointer method when the yield pt. of the material is to increasing of the
load will stop , but the poise is in beyond the balance position and the machine will stop
the correspondingly strain recorded as the yield point.

Engineering stress strain It is based entirely on the original dimension of specimen.

Hence engineering Stress, strain doesnt given a true indication of deformation
characteristics.
Procedure 1) Adjust specimen pendulum according to the grips is fixed
2) Adjust range of dial gauge.
3) Switch on the machine for regular interval of time.
4) At the same time note the corresponding elongation.
5) Continue this till the specimen is broken and load at this point is called
breaking load
6) Also note the mechanism load which is called as ultimate load .
7) Remove the specimen from fixture & measure the neck diameter.
8) Take the readings and do the calculations

Observation Tables
For Aluminum - Diameter of rod before load apply (mm) =
Gauge Length (cm) =
Diameter of rod after load applies (mm) =
Elongation (cm) =
Ultimate load =

KN

Breaking Load=
Sr,. No.

LOAD (KN)

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)

10
15
20
25
30
35
40

Elongation
(mm)

For Mild Steel - Diameter of rod before load apply (mm) =

Gauge Length (cm) =
Diameter of rod after load applies (mm) =
Elongation (cm) =
Ultimate load =

KN

Breaking Load=

KN.

Sr. No.

Load (KN)

Elongation
(mm)

KN.

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
11)

5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
55
60
65

Calculate
1. Elongation
2. Ultimate Stress
3. Breaking Stress

Draw stress strain diagram for Aluminum and M.S. bar

Experiment No 10
Aim: - Measurement of Hardness of Ferrous & Non- Ferrous materials by
1. Rock-well Hardness Tester
2. Brinell Hardnes
3. Vickers Hardness Tester

Equipments Used: Indenters steel ball, diamond etc

Force Select/Apply: Depends upon Material
Indentation /Penetration:
1. Check the hardness of the sample before and after Annealing
2. Check the hardness of the sample before and after Normalizing
3. Differentiate between the hardness of sample before Annealing &
Normalizing
Theory:
Rock-well Hardness Tester:

Brinell Hardness Tester:

Vickers Hardness Tester:

Micro hardness