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Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Low- and Medium-Carbon Si-Rich Low-Alloy Steels Processed by Austemping after Intercritical Annealing

In the present paper, the designed thermomechanical process was applied to prepare ferrite/bainite multiphase microstructures in Si-rich low-alloy steel with a carbon content of 0.33 wt.% (0.33C) and 0.21 wt.% (0.21C). The microstructures were analyzed by scanning electron microscope, transmission e...

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Autores principales: Jia, Xin, Zhao, Ting, Wang, Lin, Sun, Xiaowen, Wang, Yuefeng, Wang, Tiansheng
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8838105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35161121
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15031178
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author Jia, Xin
Zhao, Ting
Wang, Lin
Sun, Xiaowen
Wang, Yuefeng
Wang, Tiansheng
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Zhao, Ting
Wang, Lin
Sun, Xiaowen
Wang, Yuefeng
Wang, Tiansheng
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description In the present paper, the designed thermomechanical process was applied to prepare ferrite/bainite multiphase microstructures in Si-rich low-alloy steel with a carbon content of 0.33 wt.% (0.33C) and 0.21 wt.% (0.21C). The microstructures were analyzed by scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscope, and electron backscatter diffraction, and the mechanical properties (tensile and impact properties) were tested. The results showed that, on the premise of obtaining 15 vol.% ferrite in both steels, the ferrite grains in the 0.33C steel were polygonal with an average grain size of 2.2 μm, recrystallized more completely. However, the ferrite grains in the 0.21C steel were mainly long strip-shaped with a width of 2–4 μm, and the recrystallization degree was poor. In addition, upon increasing the austempering temperature, bainite ferrite laths were formed in the 0.33C steel, and the thickness was in the range of 81–123 nm. The morphology of bainite ferrite in the 0.21C steel gradually changed from lath to granular. Upon increasing the austempering temperature, the tensile strength and yield strength of both steels increased and the elongation decreased slightly. The impact energy of the two steels showed different trends upon increasing the austempering temperature, in which the impact energy of the 0.33C steel increased, while that of the 0.21C steel decreased. This is due to the difference size of the martensite-austenite constituents in the two steels.
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spelling pubmed-88381052022-02-13 Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Low- and Medium-Carbon Si-Rich Low-Alloy Steels Processed by Austemping after Intercritical Annealing Jia, Xin Zhao, Ting Wang, Lin Sun, Xiaowen Wang, Yuefeng Wang, Tiansheng Materials (Basel) Article In the present paper, the designed thermomechanical process was applied to prepare ferrite/bainite multiphase microstructures in Si-rich low-alloy steel with a carbon content of 0.33 wt.% (0.33C) and 0.21 wt.% (0.21C). The microstructures were analyzed by scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscope, and electron backscatter diffraction, and the mechanical properties (tensile and impact properties) were tested. The results showed that, on the premise of obtaining 15 vol.% ferrite in both steels, the ferrite grains in the 0.33C steel were polygonal with an average grain size of 2.2 μm, recrystallized more completely. However, the ferrite grains in the 0.21C steel were mainly long strip-shaped with a width of 2–4 μm, and the recrystallization degree was poor. In addition, upon increasing the austempering temperature, bainite ferrite laths were formed in the 0.33C steel, and the thickness was in the range of 81–123 nm. The morphology of bainite ferrite in the 0.21C steel gradually changed from lath to granular. Upon increasing the austempering temperature, the tensile strength and yield strength of both steels increased and the elongation decreased slightly. The impact energy of the two steels showed different trends upon increasing the austempering temperature, in which the impact energy of the 0.33C steel increased, while that of the 0.21C steel decreased. This is due to the difference size of the martensite-austenite constituents in the two steels. MDPI 2022-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8838105/ /pubmed/35161121 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15031178 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Jia, Xin
Zhao, Ting
Wang, Lin
Sun, Xiaowen
Wang, Yuefeng
Wang, Tiansheng
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Low- and Medium-Carbon Si-Rich Low-Alloy Steels Processed by Austemping after Intercritical Annealing
title Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Low- and Medium-Carbon Si-Rich Low-Alloy Steels Processed by Austemping after Intercritical Annealing
title_full Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Low- and Medium-Carbon Si-Rich Low-Alloy Steels Processed by Austemping after Intercritical Annealing
title_fullStr Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Low- and Medium-Carbon Si-Rich Low-Alloy Steels Processed by Austemping after Intercritical Annealing
title_full_unstemmed Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Low- and Medium-Carbon Si-Rich Low-Alloy Steels Processed by Austemping after Intercritical Annealing
title_short Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Low- and Medium-Carbon Si-Rich Low-Alloy Steels Processed by Austemping after Intercritical Annealing
title_sort microstructure and mechanical properties of low- and medium-carbon si-rich low-alloy steels processed by austemping after intercritical annealing
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8838105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35161121
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15031178
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