The magnetic mechanical analysis of manganese steel
One of the most interesting alloys for the study of its magnetic properties is manganese steel. The following paper is an attempt to correlate some of the magnetic and mechanical properties of manganese steel, in the hope that as such data are circulated it will eventually be possible to interpret from the magnetic behaviour of steel what the mechanical properties will be. Six manganese steel rods supplied by one of the authors were drawn from the same source, 76 cm. long and 0·95 cm. in diameter, and used “as drawn.” These rods were marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 respectively. The chemical analysis was made on rod No. 4 and showed:— C................................1.25 per cent. Si................................ 0.43 „ Mn...............................12.20 „ The record for the heat treatment was as follows:—“ All six bars were treated at 1000° C. (five minutes), and then water-quenched in ordinary cold water. Nos. 1, 5 and 6 were then enclosed in an iron pipe welded over at the ends, and annealed. The time for cooling from 550° C. to 450° C. was about eight hours. As this treatment did not make the bars sufficiently magnetic they were again annealed at 500° C. (530° C.—475° C.) for sixty hours."