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New insights to the promoted bainitic transformation in prior deformed austenite in a Fe-C-Mn-Si alloy

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The varying trends of the amount and rate of bainitic transformation with strains at low temperature were investigated through metallography, X-ray diffraction and dilatometry. The results show that deformation at 573 K promotes bainitic transformation, whereas the promotion degree on bainite transformation by ausforming is nonlinear with strains. The amount of bainite in deformed austenite first increases and then decreases with the increase of strains. There exists a maximum value of the promotion effect corresponding to a critical small strain at a low temperature. Bainitic transformation rate can be increased by ausforming at low temperature, whereas a large strain weakens the acceleration effect. The amount of bainite in deformed materials is synthetically depended on the effect of enhanced nucleation and repressed growth. In addition, the volume fraction of retained austenite is not completely consistent with carbon content, indicating that ausforming plays a important role in determining the amount of austenite.

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    Hai-jiang Hu, Guang Xu, Ming-xing Zhou & Qing Yuan

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Hu, Hj., Xu, G., Zhou, Mx. et al. New insights to the promoted bainitic transformation in prior deformed austenite in a Fe-C-Mn-Si alloy. Met. Mater. Int. 23, 233–238 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12540-017-6407-4

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