Martensitic and bainitic steels are two types of widely used steels with excellent mechanical behaviors in automatic industry. It’s universally acknowledged that asquenched martensite possesses poor ductility and impact toughness, which should be tempered before putting into application. During tempering, as-quenched martensite changes from a hard and brittle microstructure to more ductile and ...

Ising spin-glass systems with long-range interactions (J(r) ∼ r) are considered. A numerical study of the critical behaviour is presented in the non-mean-field region together with an analysis of the probability distribution of the overlaps and of the ultrametric structure of the space of pure states in the frozen phase. Also in presence of diverging thermodynamical fluctuations at the critical...

The present experimental investigations deal with the improvement of mechanical properties of cold work tool steels through different heat treatment processes. An attempt was made to get optimal combination of hardness and toughness through changes of microstructure by heat treatment. The toughness of D2 tool steel increases with tempering temperature. The hardness of D2 tool steel decreases wi...

this experimental study investigated the effects of quenching and tempering heat treatment on fatiguebehavior and also tempering temperature and time holding of aisi 1060 steel. at first, the specimenswere austenitized at 800˚c for 1 hour, and then were quenched in the water bath of 25˚c temperature.after that, tempering process was done at the temperature of 250˚c, 450˚c and 650˚c for 1 and 2 ...

Parallel tempering and population annealing are both effective methods for simulating equilibrium systems with rough free energy landscapes. Parallel tempering, also known as replica exchange Monte Carlo, is a Markov chain Monte Carlo method while population annealing is a sequential Monte Carlo method. Both methods overcome the exponential slowing associated with high free energy barriers. The...

Softening frequently occurs in dual-phase steels under isothermal tempering of martensite. Recently, non-isothermal tempering is implemented to decrease the softening process in dualphase steels. Here, we have discovered using high power electropulsing treatment can significantly enhance the strengthening effects via the formation of ultrafine-grained ferrite with nano-cementite particles in te...

Effects of tempering temperature on tensile and hole expansion properties in a dual-phase C–Mn steel were investigated. The ultimate tensile strength and yield strength decreased and elongations increased with an increase of tempering temperature. The hole expansion property increased significantly at the tempering temperature ranging from 200 to 300 8C and did not show significant difference w...

Perfect simulation algorithms based on Propp and Wilson (1996) have so far been of limited use for sampling problems of interest in statistics. We specify a new family of perfect sampling algorithms obtained by combining MCMC tempering algorithms with dominated coupling from the past, and demonstrate that our algorithms will be useful for sample based inference. Perfect tempering algorithms are...