Which risk arises when rapid quenching during steel manufacturing incompletely resolves austenite within the work piece?

💡 Explanation

Detrimental martensite plates will form because the quenching phase transformation does not occur uniformly across the microstructure. This incomplete transformation results in localized stress concentrations due to volume changes linked to changing the crystal lattice rather than full austenite transformation.

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