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Metallurgical Engineering - Widmannstatten Ferrite and Cementite Widmanstätten Structu

The document discusses Widmanstätten structures that form in carbon steel when the carbon content is near the eutectoid composition of around 0.8% carbon. These structures consist of long ferrite needles within pearlite. Widmanstätten structures can also form in other metals. The document goes on to explain that Widmanstätten ferrite forms through a displacive mechanism where the growth is controlled by the diffusion of carbon ahead of the ferrite-austenite interface. Simultaneous nucleation of two ferrite plates is required to accommodate the strain from the shape deformation.

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Metallurgical Engineering - Widmannstatten Ferrite and Cementite Widmanstätten Structu

The document discusses Widmanstätten structures that form in carbon steel when the carbon content is near the eutectoid composition of around 0.8% carbon. These structures consist of long ferrite needles within pearlite. Widmanstätten structures can also form in other metals. The document goes on to explain that Widmanstätten ferrite forms through a displacive mechanism where the growth is controlled by the diffusion of carbon ahead of the ferrite-austenite interface. Simultaneous nucleation of two ferrite plates is required to accommodate the strain from the shape deformation.

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4/10/2020 Metallurgical engineering - Widmannstatten ferrite and cementite Widmanstätten structures made from ferrite sometimes occur in carbon …

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Metallurgical engineering
Widmannstatten ferrite and cementite

Widmanstätten structures made from ferrite sometimes occur in carbon steel, if the carbon content is below
but near the eutectoid composition (~ 0.8% carbon). This occurs as long needles of ferrite within the pearlite.
Widmanstätten structures form in many other metals as well.

We have categorised transformations into displacive and reconstructive, with the former being strain
dominated and the latter diffusion dominated. Displacive transformations are also known as military
transformations by analogy to a queue of solidiers boarding a bus. The soliders board the bus in a disciplined
manner such that there is a defined correspondence between their positions in the bus and those in the
queue. Near neighbours remain so on boarding. There is thus no diffusional mixing and no composition
change. Because the soldiers are forced to sit in particular positions, there will be a lot of strain energy and
this is not an equilibrium scenario.

A civilian transformation is one in which the queue of civilians board the bus in an un-coordinated manner so
that all correspondence between the positions in the bus and the queue is lost. Civilians occupy the positions
they prefer to occupy, a situation analogous to diffusion.

There is a third kind of transformation, paraequilibrium in which the larger atoms in substitutional sites move
in a discipline manner (without diffusion) whereas the faster moving interstitial atoms diffuse and partition
between the phases. This is how Widmanstätten ferrite grows, a displacive mechanism whose rate is
controlled by the diffusion of carbon in the austenite ahead of the alpha(w)/γ interface.

In fact, the strain energy due to the shape deformation when an individual plate of Widmanstätten ferrite
forms is generally so high that it cannot be tolerated at the low driving-force where it grows. As a
consequence, two back-to-back plates which accommodated each others shape deformation grow
simultaneously. This dramatically reduces the strain energy, but requires the simultaneous nucleation of
appropriate crystallographic variants. As a consequence, the probablity of nucleation is reduces and the
microstructure is coarse. The characteristic thin-wedge shape of alpha(w) is because the two component
plates have different habit plane variants with the parent austenite.

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