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Metallography of stainless steels
Hasoňová, Michaela ; Kalina, Lukáš (referee) ; Zmrzlý, Martin (advisor)
This thesis deals with metallography of stainless steels. At the beginning of theoretical part the history of metallography is shortly summarized. Then the basic knowledge about metallography, ways and methods of preparing samples for subsequent analysis of structure are resumed. There are also summarized methods for examining the macrostructure and microstructure of materials with a particular focus on stainless steels. The literary-search section summarizes recent advances in the study of the structure of materials using methods of metallography. The task of the study was to find suitable composition of etchant to reveal the structure of stainless steels in order to achieve high quality and especially reproducible results.
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Magnesium alloys
Březina, Matěj ; Šoukal, František (referee) ; Zmrzlý, Martin (advisor)
The study is focused on corrosion and corrosion protection of magnesium and magnesium alloys. The theoretical part describes properties of magnesium and magnesium alloys. It shows their advantages as well as their disadvantages and discusses ideal use for these alloys. The theoretical part analyses basic corrosion characteristics and typical corrosion processes. It deals with types of corrosion protection and ways of its use. The experimental part was focused on metallographic analysis and corrosion behavior of magnesium alloy AZ91. Metallographic methods were used for preparing AZ91 to corrosion tests. The experimental part compared corrosion rate and degradation of pure AZ91 and AZ91 with conversion coating (phosphate-permanganate) in 3,5% sodium chloride solution in times: 1, 8 and 48 hours.
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Reactivity and controll of properties of metallic materials
Ševčíková, Barbora ; Opravil, Tomáš (referee) ; Zmrzlý, Martin (advisor)
The main objective of the bachelor thesis is to investigate the reactivity and corrosion of materials, namely of magnesium alloys. The theoretical part comprises a brief summary of the existing knowledge on magnesium alloys in the field of metal corrosion and a description of essential properties of the examined and utilized material. These are followed by the protection technology and a material resistance analysis including the specification of the processes applied in the experimental part. The thesis is focused on a comparison of the microstructure and corrosion resistance of magnesium alloys AZ31, AZ61 and AZ91. The applied methodology lied on metallography preparation of light optical micrographs of the surface-region cross-sections and on corrosion tests. These were carried out in 3% sodium chloride solution where the samples were immersed for the period of 8 hours.
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Cracking of ferritic stainless steel tubes during production process
Majtás, Dušan ; Kreislová, K. ; Viani, Alberto ; Pérez-Estébanez, Marta ; Geiplová, H.
From the economic reasons many products originally made from austenite stainless steel are nowadays made from ferritic stainless steel. Ferritic steels have relatively low yield strength and the work hardening is limited. They cannot be hardened by heat treatment and only moderately hardened by cold working. Commercially made stainless steel tubes from ferritic steel, used for industrial plumbing was examined on presence of cracks. The cracking was present on the inner side of the convoluted tube shape. The tube manufacturing process consisted of continual bending of the sheet to tube shape, weld the tube, then of cold shaping by pulling through rib-forming frames, which is done in several steps. Then thermal treatment applies to the nearly finished product to remove stress remaining in the structure. Prime suspect was deformation beyond the ductility of used material. However the stress-strain tensile testing does not approved this hypothesis. Several samples of failed material were taken together with reference, and were examined by optical microscopy, and X-Ray Diffraction structure analysis. The structure of the cracked tubes does not show the signs of deformation over the limit, except the location near to the crack itself. Interestingly enough the failed material showed more homogenous structure than the original one. Needle like structures were found when the material is “overetched”, on these structures concentration of stress under bending occur. This structure was identified as δ-ferrite, however its presence in α-ferrite matrix is unclear.
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The pseudoelasticity and the shape memory effect in CoNiAl alloys
Kopeček, Jaromír ; Jarošová, Markéta ; Jurek, Karel ; Heczko, Oleg
The cobalt alloys (close to the CoNiAl stoichiometry) are the less known shape memory alloys. Such behavior is consequence of the martensitic transformation. The pseudoelasticity is caused by the stress-induced martensitic transformation above the equilibrium martensite start temperature from high temperature cubic phase (austenite) to lower symmetry phase(martensite). In CoNiAl the pseudoelastic behavior can be obtained by the high temperature annealing. In presented work the effect of the annealing temperature on both pseudoelastic behavior and microstructure was investigated.
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Pattern-welded sword from the grave No. 715, Mikulčice, and its metallographic examination
Hošek, Jiří ; Košta, J.
The investigated sword comes from Mikulčice Stronghold, which was one of the main power centres of the Gr. Moravian Empire created in the first third of the 9th century and abolished by invasion of Avars into Carpathian basin at the beginning of the 10th century. The weapon was lifted from the grave No. 715, in which also a knife, an axe, and remnants of spurs were found besides the sword. It is supposed, on the base of badly preserved skeleton, that the interred man died in age of 40-60. The sword is due to its general sturdy construction, a two-piece pommel, and a short guard, obviously related to the early-Carolingian types and could be roughly dated to the first half of the 9th century. The sword ranks rather among display weapons, because its pattern-welded blade, which was presumably never destined for frequent combat, was only iron in preserved cutting-edges, and any previous effective improvement by steel and subsequent heat treatment cannot be evidenced in the cutting lines.
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