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Effect of nano-sized precipitates on the crystallography of ferrite in high-strength strip steel

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For strip steel with the thickness of 1.6 mm, the yield and tensile strengths as high as 760 and 850 MPa, respectively, were achieved using the compact strip production technology. Precipitates in the steel were characterized by scanning and transmission electron microscopy to elucidate the strengthening mechanism. In addition, intragranular misorientation, Kernel average misorientation, and stored energy were measured using electron backscatter diffraction for crystallographic analysis of ferrite grains containing precipitates and their neighbors without precipitates. It is found that precipitates in specimens primarily consist of TiC and Ti4C2S2. Ferrite grains containing precipitates exhibit the high Taylor factor as well as the crystallographic orientations with {012}, {011}, {112}, or {221} plane parallel to the rolling plane. Compared with the intragranular orientation of adjoining grains, the intragranular misorientation of grains containing precipitates fluctuates more frequently and more mildly as a function of distance. Moreover, the precipitates can induce ferrite grains to store a relatively large amount of energy. These results suggest that a correlation exists between precipitation in ferrite grains and grain crystallographic properties.

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  1. Key Laboratory for Ferrous Metallurgy and Resources Utilization of the Ministry of Education, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, China

    Jing-jing Yang, Run Wu & Meng-xia Tang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, China

    Jing-jing Yang & Run Wu

  3. Institute of Research and Design, Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation, Wuhan, 430080, China

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Yang, Jj., Wu, R., Liang, W. et al. Effect of nano-sized precipitates on the crystallography of ferrite in high-strength strip steel. Int J Miner Metall Mater 21, 448–454 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-014-0928-3

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