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21-Mat-A6 Materials Selection and Design for Materials Processing: Dec-10-Met-A6 2018

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  1. Question 1 Heat Treatments Read from the Fe–Fe 3 C Phase Diagram — Hypoeutectoid Bound, Spheroidite, Normalizing and Dual-Phase (MA) Microstructure
  2. Question 2 Interphase Interface Coherency, Precipitate-Free Zones, and Why Fine Precipitates Restrict Grain Growth
  3. Question 3 Grain-Boundary Topology and Motion; Deriving the Zener Limiting Grain Size; Minimizing Grain Growth in Nb-Microalloyed HSLA Steel
  4. Question 4 Classical Nucleation Theory — Critical Radius, Undercooling, Heterogeneous versus Homogeneous Nucleation, and Interface Growth Morphology
  5. Question 5 Recovery, Recrystallization and Grain Growth — Property Changes and Boundary Migration
  6. Question 6 Reading the TTT Diagram of a Eutectoid Steel — Four Isothermal/Interrupted-Quench Heat-Treatment Paths
  7. Question 7 Lowering the Recrystallization Temperature of Autobody Aluminum Panels; Two Factors Controlling Grain Growth during Sheet Annealing
  8. Question 8 Effects of Increasing Undercooling; Why Metals Do Not Solidify Exactly at $T_m$; Equilibrium versus Effective Distribution Coefficients

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10-Met-A6 — Phase Transformation & Thermal Treatment of Metals and Alloys — National Exams, December 2018 — 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.; Reed-Hill & Abbaschian, Physical Metallurgy Principles, 4th ed.; ASM Handbook Vol. 4, Heat Treating; Krauss, Steels: Processing, Structure, and Performance.