Which outcome occurs when a metal casting's cooling rate varies spatially?

💡 Explanation

Residual stress concentrates due to differential thermal contraction via the phase transformation mechanism, because faster cooled regions solidify and shrink earlier and constrain the slower ones and thus lead to local tensile or compressive stress; therefore, areas exhibit higher propensity towards fatigue failure rather than uniform microstructures affecting hardness at a small scale.

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