Microstructure evolution during ART-annealing （austenite reverted transformation annealing） of 0.2C-5Mn steel processed by austenitation at different temperatures was examined by SEM, TEM and XRD. It was demonstrate...Microstructure evolution during ART-annealing （austenite reverted transformation annealing） of 0.2C-5Mn steel processed by austenitation at different temperatures was examined by SEM, TEM and XRD. It was demonstrated that the initial mi- crostructures resulted from austenization at different temperatures strongly affect the microstructure evolution during followed ART-annealing, even the ultrafine grained ferrite/austenite duplex structure with about 30% austenite could be obtained af- ter long time ART-annealing in all cases. Austenization in the intercritical region （between Ad and At3） gave a duplex structure after quenching, which was nearly not affected by followed annealing process. However, high temperature austenization （above A^3） resulted in a full martensite structure after quenching, which gradually transformed into a ferrite/austenite duplex structure during the following anneal- ing process. Based on the analysis of austenite fraction and carbon concentrate, it was found that not only carbon partitioning but also manganese paxtitioning in the austenite affected the stability of austenite and even dominated the development of lamellar ferrite and austenite duplex structure during intercritical annealing with different times. At last an austenite lath nucleation and thickening model was pro- posed to describe the microstructure evolution of medium mangenese steel during ART-annealing.展开更多
基金supported by National Basic Research Program of China(No.G2010CB630803) National High Technical Research and Development Programme of China (Nos.2009AA03Z519 and 2009AA033401)
文摘Microstructure evolution during ART-annealing （austenite reverted transformation annealing） of 0.2C-5Mn steel processed by austenitation at different temperatures was examined by SEM, TEM and XRD. It was demonstrated that the initial mi- crostructures resulted from austenization at different temperatures strongly affect the microstructure evolution during followed ART-annealing, even the ultrafine grained ferrite/austenite duplex structure with about 30% austenite could be obtained af- ter long time ART-annealing in all cases. Austenization in the intercritical region （between Ad and At3） gave a duplex structure after quenching, which was nearly not affected by followed annealing process. However, high temperature austenization （above A^3） resulted in a full martensite structure after quenching, which gradually transformed into a ferrite/austenite duplex structure during the following anneal- ing process. Based on the analysis of austenite fraction and carbon concentrate, it was found that not only carbon partitioning but also manganese paxtitioning in the austenite affected the stability of austenite and even dominated the development of lamellar ferrite and austenite duplex structure during intercritical annealing with different times. At last an austenite lath nucleation and thickening model was pro- posed to describe the microstructure evolution of medium mangenese steel during ART-annealing.
