This article focuses on the analysis of evolution inclusions present in eutectoid pearlitic steel subjected to a real cold drawing process. To this end, wires belonging different stages manufacture chain were studied, starting from an initial hot rolled bar (not drawn at all). In addition information obtained through visual inspection, quantitative microdefects generated by these was carried ou...

The main contribution of the present work is to investigate the capability of exponential-type constitutive equationto model the warm deformation flow curves of a eutectoid steel in the temperature range of 620-770 °C andat the strain rates in the range of 0.01-10 s-1 conducted on a Gleeble-1500 thermomechanical simulator. Warmdeformation in this temperature range f...

Austenitization is an inevitable occurrence during the heat treatment of steels. Despite this consideration, less attention has been paid so far to the study of the formation of austenite as compared with the vast amount of research on its decomposition. That is because the steel properties depend basically on the transformation processes following austenitization. However, the initial austenit...