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21-Mat-A6 Materials Selection and Design for Materials Processing: December 2014

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  1. Question 1 Recovery, Recrystallization and Grain Growth — Property Changes and Boundary Migration
  2. Question 2 Metastable Precipitation Sequences, Spinodal Decomposition and Ordered Domains
  3. Question 3 Recrystallization Temperature and Grain Growth in Aluminum Sheet
  4. Question 4 Heat Treatments of a Hypoeutectoid Steel; Martensite versus Bainite
  5. Question 5 Heat Treatments Read from the Fe–Fe 3 C Phase Diagram
  6. Question 6 Nucleation Mechanisms in Four Phase Transformations
  7. Question 7 Carbide/Nitride Solubility in Austenite; AlN in Hot-Rolled Steel
  8. Question 8 TTT Curve for a Eutectoid Steel; Controlled Rolling; Tempering Routes

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10-Met-A6 — Phase Transformation & Thermal Treatment of Metals & Alloys — National Exams, December 2014 — 3 hours — 8 questions printed, first 5 as answered are marked (all 8 answered below as a complete study resource).

Reference texts: Callister & Rethwisch, Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction, 10th ed.; Porter, Easterling & Sherif, Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys, 3rd ed.; ASM Handbook Vol. 4, Heat Treating; Krauss, Steels: Processing, Structure, and Performance.

Every question below is genuine phase-transformation/heat-treatment content.