Accelerating bainite transformation by concurrent pearlite formation in a medium Mn steel: Experiments and modelling

被引:18
作者
Huang, L. K. [1 ,2 ]
Liu, F. [2 ]
Huang, M. X. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Hong Kong, Dept Mech Engn, Pokfulam Rd, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[2] Northwestern Polytech Univ, State Key Lab Solidificat Proc, Xian 710072, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
来源
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | 2024年 / 176卷
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Medium Mn steels; Bainite; Thermodynamics; Kinetics; Phase transformation; AUSTENITE GRAIN-SIZE; LOW-ALLOY STEELS; ATOM-PROBE; FE-C; MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES; QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS; SOLUTE DRAG; KINETICS; CARBON; FERRITE;
D O I
10.1016/j.jmst.2023.07.067
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Bainite transformation has yet to be utilized and even thoroughly studied in medium Mn steels. Here, we investigate the isothermal bainite transformation in a 10Mn steel at 450 degrees C experimentally and theoret-ically, focusing on the effect of dislocations introduced by warm deformation. We show that the bainite transformation in the studied medium Mn steel exhibits extremely sluggish kinetics (on a time scale of days), concurrent with the pearlite formation. The introduced dislocations can significantly accelerate bai-nite transformation kinetics while also facilitating the pearlite reaction. This is likely the first report on the simultaneous occurrence of these two solid-state reactions in medium Mn steels. With respect to the roles of dislocations in the acceleration of bainite transformation observed in this work, we propose a new 'carbon depletion mechanism', in which dislocations-stimulated pearlite formation makes a twofold contribution: facilitating the formation of bainitic ferrite sub-units to further enhance the autocatalytic effect and preventing the carbon enrichment in the remaining austenite. On this basis, a physical model is developed to quantitatively understand the bainite transformation kinetics considering the effect of concurrent pearlite formation, revealing good agreements between model descriptions and experiment results. Our findings, herein, offer fundamental insights into the bainite transformation in medium Mn steels and uncover a previously unidentified role played by introduced dislocations in influencing the ki-netics of bainite formation, which may guide its future application in manipulating microstructure for the development of advanced high-strength steels. (c) 2023 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The editorial office of Journal of Materials Science & Technology.
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页码:211 / 223
页数:13
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