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Austenite Grain Structures in Ti- and Nb-Containing High-Strength Low-Alloy Steel During Slab Reheating

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Austenite-grain growth was investigated in a couple of microalloyed steels, one containing Ti and the other containing Nb, Ti, and V, using different reheating temperatures between 1273 K and 1523 K (1000 °C and 1250 °C). Nature and distribution of microalloy precipitates were quantitatively analyzed before and after reheating. Interdendritic segregation (or microsegregation) during casting can result in an inhomogeneous distribution of microalloy precipitates in the as-cast slabs, which can create austenite grain size variation (even grain size bimodality) after reheating. Ti addition reduced the grain size variation; however, it could not eliminate the grain size bimodality in Nb-containing steel, due to the differential pinning effect of Nb precipitates. A model was proposed for the prediction of austenite grain size variation in reheated steel by combining different models on microsegregation during solidification, thermodynamic stability, and dissolution of microalloy precipitates and austenite grain growth during reheating.

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Acknowledgments

Sincere thanks to SRIC, I.I.T. Kharagpur, for the research funding and the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Steel Tech. Centre, and Central Research Facility in I.I.T. Kharagpur for the provision of research facilities. Sukanta Mandal, Sudipta Patra, and Anish Karmakar helped during the experimental work. The authors acknowledge the assistance from D. Srivastava, S. Neogi, and A. Laik from the Materials Science Division of BARC (Mumbai).

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  1. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), Kharagpur, 721 302, West Bengal, India

    S. Roy (Postdoctoral Student) & D. Chakrabarti (Assistant Professor)

  2. Materials Science Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, 400 085, India

    G. K. Dey (Head)

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Roy, S., Chakrabarti, D. & Dey, G.K. Austenite Grain Structures in Ti- and Nb-Containing High-Strength Low-Alloy Steel During Slab Reheating. Metall Mater Trans A 44, 717–728 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-012-1409-9

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