Crucible steel blades

Rivkin · 8th October 2006, 10:30 PM

Thank you Jens.

As far as I remember a lot of steels become brittle at temperatures around 0 centigrade; I doubt that one can fight or even run at minus 40 degrees, so most likely we must look at higher temperatures.

Concerning phase transitions - I have no idea about the topic, but 20-30 degrees change in temperature - can it force a fast phase transition ? Or it will take 200 years for the transition to occur ?
I think the cause here is a simple brittleness.

8th October 2006, 10:30 PM	#8
Rivkin Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 655	Thank you Jens. As far as I remember a lot of steels become brittle at temperatures around 0 centigrade; I doubt that one can fight or even run at minus 40 degrees, so most likely we must look at higher temperatures. Concerning phase transitions - I have no idea about the topic, but 20-30 degrees change in temperature - can it force a fast phase transition ? Or it will take 200 years for the transition to occur ? I think the cause here is a simple brittleness.