Increase in the wear resistance of hammer mill hammers

RETRACTED: Development of high-manganese steels for heavy duty cast-to-shape applications

“…As noted earlier, attempts have been made through the years to reduce the ease of deformation and abrasive wear of the as-quenched standard alloy by metallic addition [12][13][14][15][16][17]. Often these modified alloys have been given one of a se-…”

“…ries of elaborate heat-treating cycles [12][13][14][15][16][17] to optimise precipitate form and distribution but the accompanying decarburisation/oxidation has not been reported. In our own work, in trying to find an effective heat-treatment to dissolve the carbides in modified Hadfield's steels, it was found that exposure at 1250-1300 • C for 5-10 h in even a weakly oxidising atmosphere caused the samples to lose a considerable amount of carbon.…”