OHT#2

Section A

HIGHNESS

Short Questions

Q1. Why Pearlite is formed in nodular form?

Q2. Why degenerate Pearlite is formed?

Q3. Why cementite is deposited at grain boundaries?

Q4. Find the MS temperature for 8620 alloy steel?

Q5. What is the effect of increasing austenizing temperature of steel?

Q6. In the heat treatment of gears, we say that internal diameter shrinks but overpin diameter increases.
Why?

Q7. Prior to nitriding why we temper the steel above nitriding temperature?

Q8. What is the effect of hardenability a)Grain Size b)Boron c) carbon

Q9. What is killed steel? Why killed steel is used in CCM?

Q10. Why nitriding layer is checked by Micro Vickers Hardness tester?

Q11. Ring gear is subjected to the gas nitriding, its hardness was found to be 700 VPN but there is change
in the dimension of dowel holes. Explain the reason behind this effect

Q12. What is auger analysis?

Q13. How do we combat with secondary hardening?

Q14. Differentiate between twinned and lathe martensite?

Q15. What do we mean by air hardening?

Q16. What is the effect of frequency on induction hardened part?

Q17. Why only medium carbon steel is subjected to induction hardening?

Q18. Write abbreviations of MPI, UT, DPT?

Q19. What is the structure in the core of a induction hardened part. Compare it with the structure of core
in carburizing

Q20. Why probability of crack formation is higher in induction hardened part?

Q21. In D2 steel why hardness increase during step wise tempering?

Q22. If there is degenerate Pearlite in 8620 steel and is subjected to the gas carburizing. What will be its
effect on final result of carburizing?

Q23. How alloying elements effect the strength of Pearlite?

Q24. If an alloy is formed by substitutional solid solution, Its diffusion is slow. Why?

Q25. Define following

 ECD
 Active nucleus
 Isothermal Annealing
 Inter-lamellar spacing
 Co-operative growth
 Lead Patenting
 Retained austenite

Q26. Why edge and side-wise growth takes place?

Q27. There is alloy known as SAE 9310 in a annealed condition. Requirement of final properties are

 ECD = 1.5 mm
 Core Hardness = 35 HRC

Suggest the process and structure of core?

Q28. Crown wheel fails after running hours of only 100. Even though it meet all the requirements of
ECD, surface hardeness. During the failure analysis, it was found 0.1 % Molybdenum was present?
Explain the reason for failure?

Section B

Q1. Prove that volume change is 4% while transformation from FCC to martensite by bain distortion
model?

Q2. What is strengthening mechanism in martensite?

Q3. What is the mechanism of pearlitic transformation?