Conclusions
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In the process of quenching steel ShKh15, the carbon is partially precipitated from the forming martensite, the rate of this process increasing as the quenching temperature and the cooling rate are lowered.
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The decomposition of freshly formed martensite occurs mainly by the biphase mechanism; with a large quantity of precipitating carbon, single-phase decomposition also occurs.
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All-Union Scientific Design-Engineering Institute of the Bearing Indsutry. Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 10, pp. 23–25, October, 1981.
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Kagan, A.S., Spektor, A.G. & Tsil'man, R.I. Decomposition of martensite in steel ShKh15 in the process of quenching. Met Sci Heat Treat 23, 691–693 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00712405
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