In situ observation of austenite grain growth behavior in the simulated coarse-grained heat-affected zone of Ti-microalloyed steels
In situ observation of austenite grain growth behavior in the simulated coarse-grained heat-affected zone of Ti-microalloyed steels作者机构:The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Steels Wuhan University of Science and Technology
出 版 物:《International Journal of Minerals,Metallurgy and Materials》 (矿物冶金与材料学报(英文版))
年 卷 期:2014年第21卷第9期
页 面:878-885页
核心收录:
学科分类:08[工学] 080502[工学-材料学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程(可授工学、理学学位)]
基 金:financially supported by the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (No. 2014M550415) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50734004)
主 题:alloy steel austenite grain growth heat-affected zone coarsening titanium nitride
摘 要:The austenite grain growth behavior in a simulated coarse-grained heat-affected zone during thermal cycling was investigated via in situ observation. Austenite grains nucleated at ferrite grain boundaries and then grew in different directions through movement of grain boundaries into the ferrite phase. Subsequently, the adjacent austenite grains impinged against each other during the α→γtransformation. After the α→γ transformation, austenite grains coarsened via the coalescence of small grains and via boundary migration between grains. The growth process of austenite grains was a continuous process during heating, isothermal holding, and cooling in simulated thermal cycling. Abundant finely dispersed nanoscale TiN particles in a steel specimen containing 0.012wt% Ti effectively retarded the grain boundary migration, which resulted in refined austenite grains. When the Ti concentration in the steel was increased, the number of TiN particles de- creased and their size coarsened. The big particles were not effective in pinning the austenite grain boundary movement and resulted in coarse austenite grains.