Wootz Damascus steel blades

Materials Characterization

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-22

  Verhoeven, J D ^a   Pendray, A H ^b   Gibson, E D ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b ABS Master Bladesmith   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING ELEMENTS; FORGING; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; STEEL HEAT TREATMENT; STEEL METALLOGRAPHY; THERMAL CYCLING;

BANDED HYPOEUTECTOID STEELS; CEMENTITE PARTICLES; INTERDENTRITIC REGIONS; SELECTIVE COARSENING; WOOTZ DAMASCUS STEEL BLADES;

STEEL INGOTS;

EID: 0030183010     PISSN: 10445803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1044-5803(96)00019-8     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. J. D. Verhoeven and D. T. Peterson, What is a Damascus steel? Mater. Char. 29:335-341 (1993).
2. M. Sache, Damascus Steel, Myth, History, Technology Applications, Stahleisen, Dusseldorf, pp. 67-68 (1994).
3. J. D. Verhoeven and A. H. Pendray, Experiments to reproduce the pattern of Damascus steel blades, Mater. Char. 29:195-212 (1992).
4. J. D. Verheoven and A. H. Pendray, A reconstructed method for making Damascus steel blades, Metals Mater. Proc. 4:93-106 (1992).
5. J. D. Verhoeven and A. H. Pendray, Studies of Damascus steel blades, I: Experiments on reconstructed blades, Mater. Char. 30:175-186 (1993).
6. J. D. Verhoeven and A. H. Pendray, Studies of Damascus steel blades, II: Destruction and reformation of the pattern, Mater. Char. 30:184-200 (1993).
7. P. M. Berge, A study of Damascus steel, MS thesis, Iowa State University, Ames, IA (1994).
8. J. D. Verhoeven and L. L. Jones, Damascus steel, II: Origin of the damask pattern, Metallography 20: 153-180 (1987).
9. D. T. Peterson, H. H. Baker, and J. D. Verhoeven, Damascus steel: characterization of one Damascus steel sword, Mater. Char. 24:355-374 (1990).
10. P. M. Berge, J. D. Verhoeven, D. T. Peterson, and A. H. Pendray, Graphitization of plain carbon steels, Iron Steelmaker 22:67-72 (1995).
11. E. T. Turkdogan, Nucleation, growth and flotation of oxide inclusions in liquid steel, J. Iron Steel Inst. 204:914-949 (1966).
12. T. Fuwa and J. Chipman, The carbon oxygen equilibria in liquid iron, Trans. Met. Soc, AIME 218: 887-891 (1960).
13. L. E. Samuels, Ferrite-pearlite banding in steel, in Optical Microscopy of Carbon Steels, American Society for Metals, Metals Park, OH, pp. 127-161 (1980).
14. R. A. Grange, Effect of microstructural banding in steel, Met. Trans. 2:417-426 (1971).
15. P. G. Bastien, The mechanism of formation of banded structures, J. Iron Steel Inst. (London), 193: 281-290 (1957).