The continuing study of damascus steel: Bars from the alwar armory

The continuing study of damascus steel: Bars from the alwar armory

These experiments and the statement by Porta indicate that the old bladesmiths of Damascus utilized some sort of a rim heat treatment to allow forging of the high-phosphorous hot-short wootz ingots. This paper reports on additional experiments that support this idea. In the early 1980s, one of the a...

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Veröffentlicht in:JOM (1989) 2004-09, Vol.56 (9), p.17-20
Hauptverfasser: Verhoeven, J D, Pendray, A H, Dauksch, W E
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Archaeology
Carbon
Experiments
Museums
Steel
Steel products
Thermal cycling
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Zusammenfassung:These experiments and the statement by Porta indicate that the old bladesmiths of Damascus utilized some sort of a rim heat treatment to allow forging of the high-phosphorous hot-short wootz ingots. This paper reports on additional experiments that support this idea. In the early 1980s, one of the authors (AP) was able to purchase two bars of steel (roughly 1 cm 5 cm 29 cm) from R. Charlton of Damascus USA that were imported from the Alwar Armory in Rajasthan, India. The bars were examined by G.N.
ISSN:1047-4838
1543-1851
DOI:10.1007/s11837-004-0193-4