Manufacturing Process, Quiz 4

Ricardo Villalobos Gutiérrez A01422488

1. Consider the system Al-Si in Figure 1 to answer the following questions.

a) What is the melting point of silicon? ____Like 1430°C ______
b) What are the phases at 1000 °C for a composition of 60% Si? ___β+L____
c) What is the eutectic compositition? ___12.6%Si-87.4%Al_______
d) What is the eutectic temperature? _____577°C _____
e) What is the maximum solubility of Si in α and β at eutectic temperature? ____1.65%, 99.83%______

Figure 1. Al-Si phase diagram

Figure 2. Fe-C phase diagram.

2. Consider the system Fe-C in Figure 2 to answer the following questions.

a. What is the eutectic composition? _______4.3% C - 95.7% Fe________
b. What is the eutectoid composition? _____0.77% C – 99.23% Fe__________
c. Phase α is mainly composed by? _______Fe________
d. What is the maximum solubility of carbon in phase α and at what temperature? _0.0218% C at 727°C
_________
e. What is the maximum solubility of carbon in phase γ? And at what temperature? ____2.11% C at 1200°C
More or less___________

3. Give the temperature of tempering after quenching to get values of a) HRC 40, b) HRC 57 for a eutectoide Steel.
Figure 3.
a. ____500°C ___
b. __200°C _____
 Figure 3. TTT diagram for eutectoide steel
4. Match correctly concepts and definitions.

a) Martensite __b__ Heat treatment used to eliminate part or all of the effects of cold working.
b) Annealing __c__ Deformation of a metal below the recrystallization temperature.
c) Cold working __e__ A two-phase lamellar microconstituent, containing ferrite and cementite.
d) Tempering __d__ A heat treatment used to reduce the hardness of martensite.
e) Pearlite __h__ Interstitial solid solution of carbon in FCC iron.
f) Ferrite __g__ Metastable intermetallic compound of Fe and C.
g) Cementite __f__ Insterstitial solid solution of carbon in BCC iron.
h) Austenite __a__ Phase that forms as a result of quenching to temperaturas below 120 °C.