Novel oxide particles composed of Ti, rare-earth metal and Zr was found by the present authors to promote formation acicular ferrite (AF), but their effect on toughness has not yet been clarified. Therefore, influence AF low carbon steel investigated using Ti-Rare earth metal-Zr-killed (TRZ) Al-killed (AL) steels in this study. Dominant microstructure AL is bainite forming block/packet structur...

Abstract This paper presents the microstructural changes and mechanical properties of carbide-free bainitic steel subjected to various heat treatment processes compares these results with similarly treated ferritic–pearlitic steel. A key feature investigated steel, which is common among others described in literature, that Si content developed was >1 wt.% avoid carbide precipitation retained...

Abstract Dual-phase steels provide an excellent combination of strength and ductility, as well improved energy absorption anti-corrosion protection properties. This research aims at evaluating the microstructure corrosion behaviour EN8 steel under different heat treatment temperatures in 0.5 M sulphuric acid solution (H 2 SO 4 ) using EIS, potentiodynamic polarization, gravimetric method (weigh...

Nb–Ti microalloyed low carbon high strength alloy (HSLA) steels are used to fabricate components, particularly for the automobile and piping applications requiring optimum combination of mechanical properties along with good weldability. These depend on transformed ferrite microstructure grain size obtained after cooling from hot rolling temperatures which always well above austenitizing temper...

fatigue behavior of a vanadium microalloy steel has been studied in this research. here, microstructure constituents were considered which essentially are dependent on the heat treatment conditions. the results of high cycle fatigue tests revealed that heat treatment procedure and cooling rates have significant effects on fatigue properties. optimal heat treatment cycle of the microalloyed stee...

in this study, in order to investigate the effect of increasing the manganese content on microstructure and mechanical properties of high manganese austenitic steels, three alloys with successive increases in weight percentages of manganese (7.55, 13.1, and 16.5) and carbon (0.8 and 1.2) were cast in the presence of a constant amount of chromium (1.5 wt.%) and silica (0.6 wt.%). the samples exp...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of quenching and tempering temperatures on themicrostructure, mechanical properties and the wear characteristics of medium carbon-high chromium wear resistantsteel. in addition, the dominant wear mechanisms were studied. for this purpose, austenitizing and temperingtemperatures were selected in the ranges of 900- 1000 °c and 300- 500 °c...

In this study, the effects of various heat treatments on microstructure, mechanical and magnetic properties of HSLA-100 steel were evaluated. The heat treatments consisted of austenitizing at 900°C for 60 minutes, then quenching by different cooling rates via furnace, air, oil and water; and quenched specimens were aged at 600°C for one hour. Optical and field emission scanning electron m...