Published November 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Temperature dependence of carbon supersaturation of ferrite in bainitic steels

  • 1. Department of Physical Metallurgy, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas (CENIM-CSIC), Avda. Gregorio del Amo, 8, E-28040 Madrid (Spain)
  • 2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Materials Science and Technology Division, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6139 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft (Netherlands)

Description

The carbon supersaturation of bainitic ferrite was investigated by means of atom probe tomography in three steels with different carbon and silicon contents, to elucidate the effect of transformation temperature and the reaction velocity on the mechanisms controlling bainite formation with and without the interference of cementite precipitation. Results indicated no difference in the growth mechanism over the temperature range investigated. These results provide new evidence that the bainite transformation is essentially martensitic in nature.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2012.08.007

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.scriptamat.2012.08.007;
PII
S1359-6462(12)00517-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Scripta Materialia
Journal Volume
67
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 846-849
ISSN
1359-6462
CODEN
SCMAF7

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