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During the hot rolling of bainitic steels, time and temperature must be controlled within narrow limits to avoid undesirable ferritic or martensitic phase fractions. In order to design a reliable process window for the production of bainitic steels, the effects of the different process parameters on the phase transformation and the final properties of a microalloyed and a non-microalloyed steel were investigated. Thermomechanical tests with the possibility of producing secondary samples were conducted to analyze the influence on the mechanical properties strength and toughness. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and electron probe micro analysis (EPMA) were used to investigate the origin of the differing properties. In particular, it has been found that thermomechanical rolling of the microalloyed steel leads to an improvement in strength. This is partly due to the transformation kinetics and partly to strain-induced precipitations. Further, the hardening behavior is affected by the secondary phase within the bainitic matrix configured through the cooling strategy. Coarse Martensite/Austenite (MA) structures reduce toughness, whereas finely dispersed MA islands increase the hardening potential. Furthermore, the results from the material experiments were used to develop a rate model in combination with a nucleation model to predict the kinetics of the phase transformation and the shape of the bainitic microstructure.

Application Specific Microstructure Development in Microalloyed Bainitic Hot Strip