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Which mechanism reduces the effective yield strength of steel rebar during welding?

A)Reduced ductility from rapid cooling
B)Increased hardness from carbon migration
C)Formation of brittle martensite phase
D)Strain hardening from electrode pressure

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Welding steel rebar with high heat input causes rapid localized heating and cooling leading to the formation of untempered مارتينزite, a brittle phase, which reduces effective yield strength because of reduced ductility. Therefore, forming martensite results, rather than only affecting ductility, increasing hardness or inducing strain, which have distinctly different mechanisms.

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