首页|(111656)Effect of ferrite-austenite morphology and orientation relationship on bainite transformation in low-alloy TRIP steels

(111656)Effect of ferrite-austenite morphology and orientation relationship on bainite transformation in low-alloy TRIP steels

扫码查看
To reveal the effects of large amounts of ferrite on bainite transformation behavior, the morphological and orientation relationship between ferrite (a) and austenite (y) reversed from different initial microstructures during intercritical annealing, as well as their effects on subsequent bainite transformation, were investigated by scanning electron microscopy, electron-backscattered diffraction, and dilatometry analysis. The austenite and ferrite reversed from quenched martensite exhibited an alternately arranged lamellar structure. The austenite maintained a Kurdjumov-Sachs (K-S) orientation relationship with ferrite. In the subsequent austempering, bainitic transformation exhibited a strong variant selection phenomenon. Austenite reversed from cold-deformed martensite was dispersed around ferrite, and the orientation relationship between austenite and ferrite was irrational. During austempering, the bainite nucleation rate at K-S-oriented α/γ interfaces was much higher than that at irrational-oriented α/γ interfaces. First, the alternately arranged ferrite and austenite lamellae increased the total length of α/γ interfaces per unit area, i.e., α/γ interfacial density, for bainite nucleation. Second, the activation energy for bainite nucleation at the K-S-oriented α/γ interface was lower. The K-S-oriented α/γ interfaces facilitated bainite nucleation accompanied by strong variant selection, thereby accelerating the kinetics of bainite transformation.

Bainitic steelsIntercritical annealingBainite transformationNucleationVariant selection

Tongliang Wang、Lihe Qian、Wenlu Yu

展开 >

State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China

2022

Materials Characterization

Materials Characterization

EISCI
ISSN:1044-5803
年,卷(期):2022.184
  • 7
  • 53