Technical Committee 21 Microstructure and Mechanical Properties

FA 21 Microstructure and mechanical properties
FA 21 Microstructure and mechanical properties

Member area AWT FA 21

Access to the new AWT member area from 2020:

Goals and Objectives:

  • Monitoring of research projects on the relationship between heat treatment, material structure and the resulting mechanical properties of materials and components
  • Suggestion of research projects

  • Technical exchange of ideas
  • Contact between manufacturers, users and researchers

Next date:

Practical cooperation in the technical committee

Technical Committee 21 carries out interlaboratory comparisons in cooperation with several companies. By comparing the data, the members obtain more in-depth information on specific issues in materials testing.

Film: Adjustment within the scope of a USTT ring test of FA 21 carried out at Deutsche Edelstahlwerke (DEW).

Source: Patrick Molzberger, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke/Swiss Steel Group

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