Studies Upon The Widmanstiitten Structure, I.-Introduction. The Aluminum-Silver System And The Copper-Silicon System
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- The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
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- 35
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- Publication Date:
- Jan 1, 1930
Abstract
THE importance of the Widmanstätten structure to structure theory in metallography has been recognized by many writers.1 It is a structure produced by the precipitation of a new phase from a solid solution upon cooling as a result of changing solid solubility, and displays a characteristic appearance indicating a crystallographic relationship between the new phase and the original solid solution (Fig. 1). First discovered in 1808 by Alois de Widmanstätten2, the structure has been traced by analogy through many alloy systems. Particularly is this true of the steels. Sorby's classic work3 on the microstructure of iron and steel was in essence an attempt to explain the origin of this characteristic structure in meteoric iron. He observed in a Bessemer steel and in a cast-steel ingot structures which we now recognize as typical Widmanstätten figures.4 Osmond5 observed structures in a steel ingot analogous to those found in meteorites. Arnold and McWilliams6 obtained (and recognized) a
Citation
APA: (1930) Studies Upon The Widmanstiitten Structure, I.-Introduction. The Aluminum-Silver System And The Copper-Silicon System
MLA: Studies Upon The Widmanstiitten Structure, I.-Introduction. The Aluminum-Silver System And The Copper-Silicon System. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1930.