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the purpose of hardened and tempered

 Hardened and tempered steel strips is part four of a fire. Fe is a polycrystalline material, at low temperature for a body-centered cubic structure, the heating occurs to a certain temperature reorganization into a face-centered cubic lattice structure. For steel, the matrix structure corresponding to a low temperature of ferrite, is heated to a temperature above the eutectoid austenite. Hardened steel is fully austenitic (hypoeutectoid steel) or partial austenitizing (eutectoid steel), holding time, very cold in the quenching liquid (water, oil, etc.), the formation of Markov body, and can be considered a supersaturated martensite ferritic, martensitic so just after quenching thermodynamic point of view, belongs to an unstable state, but also because of the presence of fast-cooling tissue stress. So tempering is necessary, tempering the most basic reason is to eliminate the stress, if not promptly after quenching and tempering, cracks will appear, in this case, a piece of steel will become scrap.

 
According tempering temperature level, you can get different organizations. Tempering can be tempered martensite, tempering can be tempered prop's body, tempering get tempering sorbite. Different distribution of tempered martensite, tempering care's body, tempered sorbite is actually different forms of cementite in ferrite.
 
Just quenched steel intensity is very high hardness after tempering, with the tempering temperature, the strength decreased, increased plasticity and toughness. Tempering get tempering sorbite is very good overall performance steel, which we usually call quenched and tempered steel.
 
In summary, the steel quenching purpose is to strengthen steel, higher strength steels, higher strength requirements to apply to working conditions.