Metallurgical design of microalloyed steel used to be a challenge due to its multivariate nature. Over ten kinds of microalloying elements and multi-step processing routes have complex interactions and different contributions to the final mechanical properties. Data-driven model is able to throw a rapid insight into the composition-processing -property correlation of steel metallurgy in a syste...

Large diameter steel line pipes are generally produced by cold deforming hot rolled or thermomechanically controlled rolled (TMCR) plate by the three-stage 'UOE' process. Pipe strength has been found to increase or decrease relative to the plate, depending on the steel grade and plate processing history. The strength increase is due to work hardening whereas any decrease in strength arises from...

We describe here for the first time the low temperature superplasticity of nanostructured low carbon steel (microalloyed with V, N, Mn, Al, Si, and Ni). Low carbon nanograined/ultrafine-grained (NG/UFG) bulk steel was processed using a combination of cold-rolling and annealing of martensite. The complex microstructure of NG/UFG ferrite and 50-80 nm cementite exhibited high thermal stability at ...

the flow stress of steel depends significantly on microstructural changes taken place during hot deformation processes. in hot deformation processes, the flow stress of steel is influenced by two main metallurgical phenomena, i.e. recovery and recrystallization, along with its chemical composition and thermo-mechanical parameters. the final mechanical properties of steel are also determined by ...

The formation of precipitates during thermal processing of microalloyed steels greatly influences their mechanical properties. Precipitation behavior varies with steel composition and temperature history and can lead to beneficial grain refinement or detrimental transverse surface cracks. This work presents an efficient computational model of equilibrium precipitation of oxides, sulfides, nitri...

In the present investigation, non-recrystallization temperature (TNR) of niobium-microalloyed steel is determined to plan rolling schedules for obtaining desired properties steel. The value TNR based on both alloying elements and deformation parameters. literature, equations have been developed utilized. However, each equation has certain limitations which constrain its applicability. This stud...

The effects of tungsten (W) additions (0, 0.1, 0.5 and 1 wt.%) on the hydrogen embrittlement behaviour of microalloyed steels were systematically investigated by means of slow strain rate tests on circumferentially notched cylindrical specimens, and the mechanism of hydrogen-induced embrittlement was discussed. W addition is found to increase the activation energy of hydrogen desorption. Micros...

Strip casting is an emerging technology for flat products; it is based on the concept of near-net shape casting; it holds potential for substantial energy saving and reduction in environmentally undesirable emission. In conventional thermo-mechanical processing, the pinning pressure due to the effects of Nb and NbC on boundary mobility is used to advantage to retard static recrystallisation and...

Static recrystallization is a method of tailoring the microstructure and mechanical properties steels, which important for microalloyed forging steels as hot deformation process significantly affects their properties. In this paper, static behavior low-carbon Nb-V-microalloyed steel was investigated by double-pass compression tests at temperature 800–1100 °C interruption time 1–1000 s. The frac...

The inactivation of Escherichia coli by microalloyed aluminium based composite was studied. The composite is material in form of steel wire, plated by microalloyed aluminium. Its effects are based on spontaneous dissolution in contact with water, with generation of Al(III) and OH ̄ ions, and finally voluminous insoluble Al(OH)3. Bearing in mind its great efficacy in purification of water from ma...