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Microstructure Microstructure are material structures seen at the micro level. Specifically, they are structures of an object, organism, or material as revealed by a microscope at magnifications greater than 25 times. When typically mentioned, the microstructure are defects, impurities, grains, and grain boundary. Simply put, anything that is not regular from a given crystalline structure is a microstructure. Useful definitions below:
Carburized 1215 Steel - increased hardness (note size of indents) due to additional carbon disfusion into metal.
Gray Cast Iron - typical microstructure of gray iron is a matrix of pearlite with graphite flakes dispersed throughout. 6-4 Titanium - oxygen enriched surface due to heat treatment process. See if you can find defects, impurities, grains, and grain boundaries in this microstructure. You can tell a lot about a material from it's microstructure. |
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