Carbon supersaturation of ferrite in a nanocrystalline bainitic steel

The extremely slow transformation kinetics of a nanocrystalline bainitic steel allows the carbon content of the bainitic ferrite away from any carbon-enriched regions such as dislocations and boundaries to be determined by atom probe tomography as the bainite transformation progresses at 200 C. A hi...

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Autores: García Caballero, Francisca, Miller, Michael K., García Mateo, Carlos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/34530
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/34530 doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2009.12.020
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Steels
Bainite
Three-dimensional atom probe (3DAP
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Sumario:The extremely slow transformation kinetics of a nanocrystalline bainitic steel allows the carbon content of the bainitic ferrite away from any carbon-enriched regions such as dislocations and boundaries to be determined by atom probe tomography as the bainite transformation progresses at 200 C. A high level of carbon, well above that expected from para-equilibrium with austenite, has been detected in solid solution in bainitic ferrite at the early stage of transformation. Results provide strong evidence that bainite transformation is essentially displacive in nature so that the newly formed bainitic ferrite retains much of the carbon content of the parent austenite. 2009 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.