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The technique and the results of studying slightly etched fracture surfaces of samples of carbon steel in structural states with a large fraction of carbides (pearlite, bainite, tempered martensite) are given. The technique presented made it possible to reveal, directly on the facets of brittle transcrystalline and intercrystalline fracture, elements of a microscopic and fine macroscopic structure that have undergone fracture.
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Original Russian Text © E.Yu. Kireeva, V.I. Izotov, 2011, published in Fizika Metallov i Metallovedenie, 2011, Vol. 112, No. 3, pp. 320–327.
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Kireeva, E.Y., Izotov, V.I. Investigation of the specific features of brittle fracture of carbon steel in various structural states using scanning electron microscopy of a slightly etched fracture surfaces. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 112, 301–308 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X11030215
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