Answer to Question #207908 in Mechanical Engineering for Tati

Question

A steel alloy has a microstructure consisting of ferrite and coarse pearlite. What type of alloy is this and what type of heat treatment did it undergo?

Answer 1

Pearlite is essentially a composite microstructure consisting of cementite layers (which are hard and brittle) sandwiched between ferrite layers (which are soft and ductile).