I appreciate all of your suggestions. One of my main problems is that I don't have the solutions manual to any of my books so I don't know if I'm right or wrong. Some of the books have even or odd answers but no worked out solutions so I don't know how they got the answer. I have about half...
Thanks for your reply metengr. The problem is even though I have taken it twice I can't seem to remember the exam questions with which I had trouble. All I remember is that there were several I felt like were totally "out there" and not the type of questions the average metallurgist would know...
I have now taken the PE exam twice and cannot pass it. The first time (Oct 2003) I got a 66 and the second time (Oct 2004) I got a 69. I feel like I am a pretty smart person and I've always done well on tests but this one is kicking my butt!! I feel like I have studied as hard as I can so I'm...
I have tried everything to find one of the thermo books listed as a suggested reference for the PE exam on the TMS website. The book is out of print and I cannot seem to find it anywhere. I've already tried to order it from the internet and I've called TMS and my old college professors and no...
Metman, regarding my previous question about the effects of increasing the austenitizing T from 800 C to 900 C, how did you know you were above the recrystallization T?
In hardening a 1.1% C drill rod, if you increase the austenitizing T from 800 C to 900 C, why would you get an undesirable increase in grain size and increased C content of the austenite? Also, with higher C austenite, why would that increase the amount of retained austenite, decrease the...
