Determination of carbidic carbon in steels

An attempt has been made to develop a simple analytical technique that can readily be used in an industrial laboratory to isolate and quantify the pre cipitated carbides in steel samples. Attempt has also been made to correlat e this value with the thermodynamically predicted values. There is good agr eement between the predicted and experimental results. More work is in prog ress to develop this technique for the preparation of Certified Reference M aterials with dissolved and precipitated carbon in steels. (C) 1999 Elsevie r Science B.V. All rights reserved.