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magnetic form of steel

magnetic form of steel

magnetic form of steel

(OP)
Hi everybody..
i am studying the iron crabon diagram with your metallurgic structure (martensite,austenite,ecc). In particular my attention is on change of magnetic     
property when i have various stuctures of steel with temperature or carbon percentual .. Problem is i have not more information on this matter..Could your suggest me title of books,internet and other?
Tanks and best regards
Aldo

RE: magnetic form of steel

Aldone,
as you know , Ferritic structure of  Fe-C diagram are important in terms of magnetic properties. Then,the steel grades with very low Carbon   ( left side of Fe- C ) are usually applied for magnetic purpose. Better magnetic properties will be obtained is  Ferrite structure is  "added" of Silicon. ( Silicon- Iron alloys for relais, solenoide core, ecc ecc). In addition , Ferritic stainless steel grades have same good behaviour. Even alloys steels ( as Sae 8640 ) could find some application but magnetic properties could be low. Same situation are shown by soft Martensitic stainless steel or Precipitation hardening SS. These last grades have highest coercive force, poor magnetic permeabilty . However, they could be some usefulness if higher Rm or Rp0,2 were required.
At the end of story , the different strucutures of Fe-C diagram give following "performances":
1) Ferrite = highest Permeability and lowest coercitivity ( Hc), low retentivity ( Br)
2) Ferrite + Perlite = lower permeability and higher Hc than 1)
3) Perlite and Perlite + Fe3C lowest permeabilty and highest Hc than 2)
4)  Fresh Martensite or low temperature tempered Martensite have lowest permeability and highest Hc. I point up Martensite is not a structure of Fe-C but a trasformation of Austenite when is fast  cooled starting from temperature above A3.
5) Austenite doesn'exist at room temperature in Fe-C diagram but Austenite of Austenitic Stainless Steels ( as 302 , 304 , 316  and so on ... ) has permeabilty close to 1,00 ( one).
Obviously, Hc , Br and permeability of above structures  strongly depend on heat treatment ( i.e magnetic annealing ), strain hardening and stresses ( as straightening for instance ).
If you want to have more data and some survival kit about magnetic properties of different grades , you can verify the sites of Carpenter ( USA )  , Valbruna Stainless ( USA and Italy)  , Ugine ( France), Daido ( Japan )just to say the most important Steelmakers of Magnetic Grades.  Sorry for sintetic and general information usefull only to have an idea about this subject.

RE: magnetic form of steel

(OP)
Tanks remetaper for your replay..You are very clear....  

RE: magnetic form of steel

I found the book "The Science and Engineering of Materials" very useful. there's a dedicated chapter for magnetic materials and other chapters explaining properly the iron carbon diagram. and it is cheap!

RE: magnetic form of steel

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Better magnetic properties will be obtained is  Ferrite structure is  "added" of Silicon
Most of that is stuff I am unfamiliar.  However the reason for adding silicon touted in the textbooks is to achieve higher electrical resistance, which helps limits eddy currents in ac applications (along with laminations).  

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