CARBIDE PARTICLE CRACKING IN SPHEROIDIZED CARBON STEELS

A quantitative study of the carbide particle cracking was performed on fourdifferent spheroidized carbon steels deformed uniaxially in tension.The local crit-ical stresses for the carbon particle cracking were estimated.Based on these obser-vations and computations,the effect of microstructure on the carbide particlecracking was also discussed.