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- Micrograph no
- 43
- Brief description
- Fe, C 0.2 (wt%), explosively deformed - mechanical twins
- Keywords
- alloy , carbon, iron, mechanical twins , metal, steel , twinning
- Categories
- Metal or alloy
- System
- Fe-C-X
- Composition
- Fe, C 0.2 (wt%)
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- Explosively deformed
- Applications
- Sample preparation
- Technique
- Reflected light microscopy
- Length bar
- 400 μm
- Further information
- This sample was explosively deformed so that there was insufficient time for dislocation motion to occur. Hence, mechanical twins are produced despite the b.c.c. structure of mild steel.
- Contributor
- Prof T W Clyne
- Organisation
- Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
- Date
- 25/10/01
- Licence for re-use
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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