Carbide morphology and ferrite grain size after accelerated carbide spheroidisation and refinement (ASR) of C45 steel

The Effect of Hot Deformation Parameters on Grain Size Refinement in a Martensitic Stainless Steel

The grain size refinement of AISI 422 martensitic stainless steel in the temperature range of 950-1150 ºC was investigated by hot deformation tests. The deformed specimens were held at deformation temperature with delay times of 5 to 300s after achieving a strain of 0.3. The austenite grains exhibit a considerable growth at temperature higher than 1050˚C, while the grain coarsening is negligibl...

Reaction Bonded Silicon Carbide: Sff, Process Refinement and Applications

Reaction bonded silicon carbide (RBSiC) has a wide variety of industrial applications and a manufacturing process based on Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) has been demonstrated in previous research at the University of Texas. That study was directed toward semiconductor manufacturing applications and was based on prior indirect SLS methods. Several key research questions were addressed for thre...

Surface and Bulk Carbide Transformations in High-Speed Steel

We have studied the transformation of carbides in AISI M42 high-speed steels in the temperature window used for forging. The annealing was found to result in the partial transformation of the large, metastable M2C carbides into small, more stable grains of M6C, with an associated change in the crystal orientation. In addition, MC carbides form during the transformation of M2C to M6C. From the h...

Shock-wave strength properties of boron carbide and silicon carbide

Boron carbide/n-silicon carbide heterojunction diodes