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6.1- Aircraft Materials- Ferrous Flashcards

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Where does the word ferrous come from?

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Latin for ferrum, referring to metals and alloys.

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What is important about any alloy containing iron?

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It is ferrous and magnetic.

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What is iron in the periodic table?

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Fe, atomic number 26.

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What are pure irons properties?

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Ductile, soft and easily formed.

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What is the density of pure iron?

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7.9g/cm³

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How is oxidisation of pure iron reduced?

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By alloying with carbon and other elements.

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How is iron produced?

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Mixing iron ore with coke and limestone and submitting it too hot air.

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What is the slag?

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The reaction of limestone with impurities in the iron and coke, it sits on the top.

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What percentage of cast iron is carbon?

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3.8-4.7%

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What is the issue with cast iron?

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Due to its high carbon content it is brittle.

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Cast iron isn’t often used on aircraft, but where can it be found?

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Valve guides due to its porosity allowing it too hold lubricant and piston rings.

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How many tonnes of steel is made annually?

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1.6 billion tonnes.

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How is steel made?

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Cast iron is re-melted, pure oxygen is then forced in, combining with carbon and burning. A controlled amount of carbon is then put back in.

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What happens to the ingots of molten steel after they solidify?

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They are heated to 1200C, and rolled.

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What are the considerations for alloy selection?

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Service Temp
Strength
Stiffness
Fatigue
Fabricability

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How much carbon is in steel?

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Up to 2%. Most common is 0.15% to 1%.

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What happens when the carbon content of iron reaches 6%?

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The metal is too brittle, it cannot be formed, machined, processed or used.

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What is tensile strength?

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Withstand stress in tension.

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What is compressive stress?

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Withstand pressing or squeezing.

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What is shear strength?

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Withstand stress acting coplanar with a material cross section.

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What is torsional strength?

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Resist rotational shear.

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What is flexural strength?

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Bending strength.

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What is fatigue strength (endurance)?

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Resist repeated loading.

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What is impact strength?

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Ability to resist shock.

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What is hardness?
Resist cutting, penetration and abrasion.
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What is malleability?
To be bent, formed or shaped without cracking or breaking.
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What is ductility?
To be drawn into wire stock, extrusions or rods.
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What is brittleness?
Tendency to break or shatter.
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What is conductivity?
Enables it too carry heat or electricity?
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What is thermal expansion?
To expand when heated and shrink when cooled.
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What is elasticity?
Return to its original shape after normal stretching or bending.
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What is toughness?
Resist tearing or breaking when it is bent or stretched.
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What is fusibility?
The ability of a metal to be joined by heating and melting.
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Name some of the more common alloying ingredients.
Carbon, sulphur, silicon, phosphorus, nickel and chromium.
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What happens when carbon is alloyed with iron?
Iron carbites in cementite form are made.
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What decreases when carbon content increases?
Malleability and weldability.
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What percentage is a low carbon steel?
0.1-0.3
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What percentage is a medium carbon steel?
0.3-0.5
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What percentage is a high carbon steel?
0.5-1.05
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What does sulphur do and how can it be counteracted?
Makes it brittle and manganese.
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What does silicon do as a alloying agent?
Hardener, and in small quantities ductility.
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In low carbon steels what can silicon cause?
Bad surface finish.
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What does phosphorus do as a alloying agent?
Raises the yield strength and resistance to atmospheric corrosion.
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What is the most amount of phosphorus used to avoid brittleness?
0.05%
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What does nickel do as a alloying agent?
Strength, hardness and yield strength.
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What does chromium do as a alloying agent?
Wear and corrosion resistance.
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What does molybdenum do as a alloying agent?
Reduces grain size, better impact strength and elastic limit.
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Is Chrome Molybdenum alloy the most commonly used?
Yes
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What is the SAE designation for chrome-moly?
4130 (1% moly 0.3% carbon)
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Heat treated 4130 has how many times more tensile strength than 1025?
4 times.
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What does vanadium do as a alloying agent?
When combined with chromium, produces strong, tough, ductile steel alloy.
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What does tungsten do as a alloying agent?
High melting point.
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Where is tungsten used?
Breaker contacts in magnetos and high speed cutting tools.
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Where is vanadium used?
Tooling
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Where is molybdenum used?
Engine parts
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Where is chromium used?
Balls and rollers or bearings.
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What does CRES contain?
Large amounts of chromium and nickel.
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What is cres well suited for?
High temp areas such as firewalls and exhausts.
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What is the only time that cres needs a protective coating?
When in contact with light weight alloys.
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What three categories of stainless steel are there?
Austenitic Ferritic Martensitic
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What are 200/300 series stainless steels?
Austenitic
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How does an austenite structure form?
When steels are heated to above their critical range (800 to 925f) and held there.
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How can austenite steels be hardened?
Cold working, heat treatment only anneals them.
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What series are ferritic stainless steels?
400, chromium is the main alloying element.
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What are some of the characteristics of ferritic stainless steels?
Magnetic, good ductility and welded easily.
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How are ferritic stainless steels hardened?
Cold rolling.
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What is martensitic stainless steels?
Essentially a high carbon version of ferritic, with higher chromium. The combination offers heat treatment options and corrosion resistance.
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How are steels classified?
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) system, 4 digit system.
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What do the 4 SAE digits represent?
First digit- principle alloying element Last two- carbon percentage
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What SAE numbers are carbon steels?
10xx 11xx 12xx 15xx
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What SAE numbers are Manganese steels?
13xx
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What SAE numbers molybdenum steels?
40xx 44xx
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What is a eutectoid?
A metal that can exist in more than one different form at the same temp.
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What cubic form is ferrite?
Body centre cubic
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What cubic form is Austenite?
Face centred cubic, it can absorb more carbon than ferrite.
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What is cementite also known as?
Iron carbide
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What is pearlite?
Two phased lamellar structure composed of alternating layers of alpha-ferrite (88%) and cementite.
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How is pearlite formed?
By eutectoid reaction when austenite is slowly cooled below 727c.
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In simple terms how is steel hardened?
Raised above critical temp, steel becomes austenite and absorbs carbon in solid state. Then quenched and carbon is trapped.
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What are the important factors in heat treatment?
Carbon content, temp and time taken to cool.
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What is a BCT crystal?
Body centred tetragonal structure- martensite, stronger harder and more brittle than BCC.
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What happens above the critical temp to the structure?
Goes from BCC to FCC.
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What is quenching?
Rapidly cool a material in medium such as water, oil or air.
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What is annealing?
It softens and releases stress in the metal.
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How does annealing work?
Heat to 10c above critical and heat soak, then cooled slowly.
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What is the normalising process?
Heating steel to 38c above critical limit and soaking for prescribed time, then cooled at room temp.
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What steels are best suited to case hardening?
Low carbon low alloy steels.
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What two methods are used to case harden?
Carburising and nitriding.
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What is carburising?
Heat treatment process that diffuses carbon into the surface of a metal?
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What is nitriding?
Diffuses nitrogen into it to increase hardness.
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What are the three methods of carburising?
Pack- fire clay container Gas- carbon monoxide Liquid- sodium cyanide bath
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How is nitriding carried out?
Hardening and tempering, heated to 540c and surrounded with ammonia gas.
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What parts are commonly nitrided?
Engine crankshafts and cylinder walls for wear resistance.
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What carbon content can flame hardening be carried out on?
At least 0.4% after normalisation.
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What is induction hardening?
The same has flame hardening but using a coil surrounding the metal.

CAT B- Mod 6 Materials and Hardware (14 decks)

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