01-17-2018, 01:09 PM
(01-17-2018, 12:13 PM)Mark Reich Wrote: If I have explained this more than less accurately, with simplified jargon and comprehension, it is because I have read Dr. Verhoeven's work pertaining to bladesmithing.
I still need to have it simplified to such a degree that I could present this to a non-bladesmith level, and be more or less understood.
In this case, "carbide volume fraction" might have some meaning to me. I would take it to represent how much carbon has been released from the carbides, and is now in martensitic form, with C atoms dispersed between Fe atoms, locking them in place.
A good analogy I have found for carbides in steel is one for fruit in Jello. The fruit bits are the iron carbide and the Jello is the steel. Here we can have a whole grape in the jello, or we can have that grape chopped into little cubes. Either way the fruit volume fraction in Jello is the same.