Journal of Material Sciences & Engineering

Laura García

Publications

• Commentary
  Heat Treatment Simulation of the Formation of Idiomorphic Iron Carbides with Widmanstätten Structure Observed in Archaeological Steel Pieces more than 2000 Years Old Subjected to Incineration Processes
  Author(s): Laura García, Javier Criado A, Fernando Penco, Growene W Queirós, José M Gómez de Salazar and Antonio J CriadoLaura García, Javier Criado A, Fernando Penco, Growene W Queirós, José M Gómez de Salazar and Antonio J Criado
  
  Archaeometallurgy has shown that the passage of long periods of time - centuries and millennia - produces very characteristic structures and morphologies in hypo-eutectoid steels. It is the evolution of contemporary steel structures that over time evolve into thermodynamic equilibrium at room temperature. These morphologies have been studied by us over a long period of time. In this research we present a thermal treatment of simulation of the structures related to the incineration of pre-Roman archaeological pieces from the 3rd to the 1st century BC. With this longlasting thermal treatment of up to 10,000 hours of heating to 300°C, prior heating to 950°C and abrupt cooling, we intend to obtain iron carbide structures of similar morphology to those observed in pre-Roman archaeological pieces... Read More»
  

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