Title
Influence of Ti and N contents on austenite grain control and precipitate size in structural steels
Date Issued
01 January 1999
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Medina S.
Chapa M.
Valles P.
Vega M.
Ctro. Nac. de Invest. Metalurgicas, CENIM
Publisher(s)
Iron & Steel Inst of Japan
Abstract
The austenite grain size of six steels with different Ti and N contents has been determined at 1 300°C × 10 min and at 1 100°C × 10 min. The most stable grain was achieved for a Ti/N ratio close to 2. In parallel, a study of precipitate sizes was carried out using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results indicate that the steels with a lower N content and approximately the same Ti content show a distribution of precipitates of larger size, which increases with the Ti content in solution at the austenitization temperature applied. As the austenitization temperature increases, the double effect of precipitate dissolution and coarsening appears, and only with a hipostoichiometric Ti/N ratio and as precipitated Ti content above 0.010 (wt%) are they capable of controlling the austenite grain up to high temperatures.
Start page
930
End page
936
Volume
39
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la información Otras ingenierías y tecnologías Comunicación, Medios de comunicación
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0033328411
Source
ISIJ International
ISSN of the container
09151559
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