The pearlite reaction in steels: Mechanisms and crystallography

Materials Characterization

Volumn 40, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 227-260

  Howell, Paul R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH FROM MELT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; NUCLEATION; PEARLITE; PEARLITIC TRANSFORMATIONS;

INTERLAMELLAR SPACINGS; LAMELLAE;

STEEL;

EID: 0032042557     PISSN: 10445803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1044-5803(98)00024-2     Document Type: Article

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