Abstract
MAR-aging steels have earned a niche in the metal market arena, especially where aerospace and outerspace applications are concerned. MAR-aging steels owe their high strength, excellent fracture toughness, and good ductility to a precipitation-hardening (aging) mechanism that has been debated by scientists for several years. Because of today’s trend toward more demanding design requirements and a continuing need to better understand the MAR-aging family of materials, six different alloys (C-200, C-250, C-300, C-350, T-250, and T-300) were selected for study using a singular processing treatment: a hot-wall zone-gradient furnace. These alloys were evaluated for the effects of a specific thermal gradient (°C/cm) from 1231 °C (2250 °F) at the hot-wall limit to about 260 °C (500 °F) at the opposite end, the cold wall. All six alloys were evaluated in terms of their microstructure, microhardness, composition, and associated properties as a result of this specific thermal processing method. In this paper, detailed observations on the C-350 alloy are presented, and the results are interpreted in terms of a new heat treatment cycle called AR-aging.
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