Widmanstätten ferrite

The term Widmanstätten can in principle also be written "Widmanstaetten", because the official replacement for the a-Umlaut character (ä) on systems that don't support Umlaut characters is ae for ä, oe for ö and ue for ü. This was pointed out by Eric Jaegle (Eric Jägle).

Nucleation Growth Review Undergraduate lecture Interfacial Structure of Widmanstätten Ferrite Diffusion-controlled Growth of Widmanstätten Ferrite Nucleation of Widmanstätten Ferrite Joh Watson's Ph.D. thesis, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, reproduced with the permission of the author. Intragranularly Nucleated Widmanstätten Ferrite Stress-Affected Widmanstätten Ferrite Mechanical Stabilisation of Widmanstätten Ferrite Kinetics of the Widmanstätten Ferrite Transformation Widmanstätten ferrite in Strong Steels Widmanstätten patterns in meteorites Research Old videos of lectures

Beautiful image of Widmanstaetten ferrite plates emanating from a prior austenite grain boundary; the remaining matrix is now pearlitic. Micrograph courtesy of Eng. Rolando M. Núñez Monrroy of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

Movie created using confocal laser microscopy, showing the growth of Widmanstätten ferrite, courtesy of Professor Toshihiko Koseki. Details in In situ observation of ferrite plate formation in low carbon steel during continuous cooling process, N. Oku, K. Asakura, J. Inoue and T. Koseki, Tetsu-to-Hagane, Vol. 94 (2008) 363-368.

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