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| Austenite Grain Refinement and Isothermal Growth Behavior in a Low Carbon Vanadium Microalloyed Steel |
| Geng-wei YANG1,2,3,Xin-jun SUN2,Qi-long YONG2,Zhao-dong LI2,Xiao-xian LI2,3 |
1. Key Laboratory for Ferrous Metallurgy and Resources Utilization of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, Hubei, China
2. Department of Structural Steel, Central Iron and Steel Research Institute, Beijing 100081, China
3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, Yunnan, China |
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Abstract The austenite grain refinement through control of the grain growth during reheating process after thermo-mechanical controlled process (TMCP) in a vanadium microalloyed steel was achieved. The formation of ultra-fine grained austenite was attributed to the high density of austenite nucleation at the ferrite/martensite structure and to the inhibition of austenite growth by (Ti,V)C particles at the relatively low reheating temperature. Corresponding with the precipitation behavior of (Ti,V)C with temperature, the growth behavior of austenite in the vanadium microalloyed steel could be divided into two regions. At lower reheating temperature, austenite grains grew slowly, and ultra-fine grained austenite smaller than 5 ��m was successfully obtained. By contrast, the austenite grains grew rapidly at high temperature due to the dissolution of (Ti,V)C particles. According to the measured and predicted results of austenite growth kinetics, two models were developed to describe the growth behavior of austenite grains in two different temperature regions, and the apparent activation energy Qapp for grain growth was estimated to be about 115 and 195 kJ/mol, respectively.
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Received: 06 March 2013
Published: 01 August 2014
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Corresponding Authors:
Geng-Wei YANG
E-mail: yanggengwei@126.com
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