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Unraveling the Effect of Homogenization Treatment on Decomposition of Austenite and Mechanical Properties of Low‐Alloyed TRIP Steel
Author(s) -
Azizi Ghavam,
Mirzadeh Hamed,
Habibi Parsa Mohammad
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
steel research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.603
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1869-344X
pISSN - 1611-3683
DOI - 10.1002/srin.201500246
Subject(s) - austenite , homogenization (climate) , materials science , annealing (glass) , metallurgy , plasticity , trip steel , work hardening , carbon steel , hardening (computing) , composite material , microstructure , biodiversity , ecology , corrosion , layer (electronics) , biology
The homogenization treatment is shown to have profound effects on the decomposition of austenite, suppression of microstructural banding, and work‐hardening capacity of transformation‐induced plasticity (TRIP) steels. Due to the similarity in the activity of carbon in different parts of the parent austenite phase and its extremely coarse grain size, a nearly full homogenization annealing results in the massive‐like transformation during subsequent decomposition of austenite at slow cooling rates.