This document specifies a micrographic method of determining apparent ferritic or austenitic grain size in steels. It describes the methods of revealing grain boundaries and of estimating the mean grain size of specimens with unimodal size distribution. Although grains are three-dimensional in shape, the metallographic sectioning plane can cut through a grain at any point from a grain corner, to the maximum diameter of the grain, thus producing a range of apparent grain sizes on the two-dimensional plane, even in a sample with a perfectly consistent grain size.
Tämän julkaisun valmistelusta Suomessa vastaa Metalliteollisuuden Standardisointiyhdistys ry, puh. 09 19 231 (vaihde).
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Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
3.1 Grains
3.2 General
4 Symbols
5 Principle
6 Selection and preparation of the specimen
6.1 Test location
6.2 Revealing ferritic grain boundaries
6.3 Revealing austenitic and prior-austenitic grain boundaries
7 Characterization of grain size
7.1 Characterization by an index
7.2 Characterization by the intercept method
8 Test report
Annex A Summary of methods for revealing ferritic, austenitic or prior-austenitic grain boundaries in steels (informative)