Effect of Prior Austenite Grain Size on Crystallographic Characteristics and Low‐Temperature Toughness of a Quenched Low Carbon Low Alloy Steel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
X.N. Xu ◽  
Y. Tian ◽  
Q.B. Ye ◽  
R.D.K Misra ◽  
Z.D. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
Prior Austenite ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Alloy Steel ◽  
Austenite Grain Size ◽  
Austenite Grain ◽  
Crystallographic Characteristics ◽  
Prior Austenite Grain Size ◽  
Low Temperature Toughness ◽  
Prior Austenite Grain

scholarly journals Exploring the Difference in Bainite Transformation with Varying the Prior Austenite Grain Size in Low Carbon Steel

Metals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liangyun Lan ◽  
Zhiyuan Chang ◽  
Penghui Fan
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
Prior Austenite ◽  
Low Carbon Steel ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Bainite Transformation ◽  
Austenite Grain Size ◽  
Austenite Grain ◽  
Austenite Grains ◽  
Prior Austenite Grain Size ◽  
Prior Austenite Grain

The simulation welding thermal cycle technique was employed to generate different sizes of prior austenite grains. Dilatometry tests, in situ laser scanning confocal microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy were used to investigate the role of prior austenite grain size on bainite transformation in low carbon steel. The bainite start transformation (Bs) temperature was reduced by fine austenite grains (lowered by about 30 °C under the experimental conditions). Through careful microstructural observation, it can be found that, besides the Hall–Petch strengthening effect, the carbon segregation at the fine austenite grain boundaries is probably another factor that decreases the Bs temperature as a result of the increase in interfacial energy of nucleation. At the early stage of the transformation, the bainite laths nucleate near to the grain boundaries and grow in a “side-by-side” mode in fine austenite grains, whereas in coarse austenite grains, the sympathetic nucleation at the broad side of the pre-existing laths causes the distribution of bainitic ferrite packets to be interlocked.

Influence of Austenite Grain Size on the Crystallography of Allotriomorphic Ferrite in a Low Carbon Steel

2012 ◽  
Vol 535-537 ◽  
pp. 605-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Bai ◽  
Hui Guo ◽  
Shan Wu Yang ◽  
Xin Lai He
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
Prior Austenite ◽  
Low Carbon Steel ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Austenite Grain Size ◽  
Austenite Grain ◽  
Allotriomorphic Ferrite ◽  
Austenite Grains ◽  
Prior Austenite Grain Size ◽  
Prior Austenite Grain

The influence of prior austenite grain size on the crystallography of allotriomorphic ferrite is investigated in a low carbon steel. The results show that as the prior austenite grain size decreasing, the fraction of allotriomorphic ferrites that do not keep K-S orientation relationship with any surrounding prior austenite grains is increased. It is observed that such ferrites usually form at the grain edges or grain corners. It is known that with the grain size decreasing, the fraction of grain edges and corners increases. It is suggested that the free energy of the defects at such nucleation sites is higher than that at grain faces, and the nucleation barrier of ferrite is lower. As a result, the possibility for the ferrite to form that does not have orientation relationship with all surrounding austenite grains is increased at such sites.

scholarly journals A New Systematic Approach Based on Dilatometric Analysis to Track Bainite Transformation Kinetics and the Influence of the Prior Austenite Grain Size

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
David San-Martin ◽  
Matthias Kuntz ◽  
Francisca G. Caballero ◽  
Carlos Garcia-Mateo
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Prior Austenite ◽  
Bainitic Transformation ◽  
Transformation Rate ◽  
Transformation Kinetics ◽  
Austenite Grain Size ◽  
Austenite Grain ◽  
Prior Austenite Grain Size ◽  
Prior Austenite Grain

This investigation explores the influence of the austenitisation heat treatment and thus, of the prior austenite grain size (PAGS), on the kinetics of the bainitic transformation, using as A case study two high-carbon, high-silicon, bainitic steels isothermally transformed (TIso = 250, 300, 350 °C), after being austenised at different temperatures (γTγ = 925–1125 °C). A methodology, based on the three defining dilatometric parameters extracted from the derivative of the relative change in length, was proposed to analyse the transformation kinetics. These parameters are related to the time to start bainitic transformation, the time lapse for most of the transformation to take place and the transformation rate at the end of the transformation. The results show that increasing the PAGS up to 70 µm leads to an increase in the bainite nucleation rate, this effect being more pronounced for the lowest TIso. However, the overall transformation kinetics seems to be weakly affected by the applied heat treatment (γTγ and TIso). In one of the steels, PAGS > 70 µm (γTγ > 1050 °C), which weakly affects the progress of the transformation, except for TIso = 250 °C, for which the enhancement of the autocatalytic effect could be the reason behind an acceleration of the overall transformation.

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