Quench cracking in steel as a case of hy
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XinYu Liu; C.J. McMahon Jr.
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The quench cracking that occurs in steels with carbon contents greater than about 0.3 wt% when the steel is austenitized and quenched into water is shown here to require contact of water with the surface of the steel. It can be avoided by first plating the steel with nickel. The appearance of the fr