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Nucleation kinetics of proeutectoid ferrite at austenite grain boundaries in Fe-C-X alloys

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The nucleation kinetics of proeutectoid ferrite allotriomorphs at austenite grain boundaries in Fe-0.5 at. Pct C-3 at. Pct X alloys, where X is successively Mn, Ni, Co, and Si and in an Fe-0.8 at. Pct C-2.5 at. Pct Mo alloy have been measured using previously developed experimental techniques. The results were analyzed in terms of the influence of substitutional alloying elements upon the volume free energy change and upon the energies of austenite grain boundaries and nucleus: matrix boundaries. Classical nucleation theory was employed in conjunction with the pillbox model of the critical nucleus applied during the predecessor study of ferrite nucleation kinetics at grain boundaries in Fe-C alloys. The free energy change associated with nucleation was evaluated from both the Hillert-Staffanson and the Central Atoms Models of interstitial-substitutional solid solutions. The grain boundary concentrations of X determined with a Scanning Auger Microprobe were utilized to calculate the reduction in the austenite grain boundary energy produced by the segregation of alloying elements. Analysis of these data in terms of nucleation theory indicates that much of the influence of X upon ferrite nucleation rate derives from effects upon the volume-free energy change,i.e., upon alterations in the path of theγ/(α + γ) phase boundary. Additional effects arise from reductions in austenite grain boundary energy, with austenite-forming alloying elements being more effective in this regard than ferrite-formers. By difference, the remaining influence of the alloy elements studied evidently results from their ability to diminish the energies of the austenite: ferrite boundaries enclosing the critical nucleus. The role of nucleation kinetics in the formation of a bay in the TTT diagram of Fe-C-Mo alloys is also considered.

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  1. Tsukuba Laboratories, National Research Institute for Metals, 1-2-1 Sengen, Sakura-Mura, Niihari-Gun, 305, Ibaraki, Japan

    M. Enomoto (Senior Researcher)

  2. Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA

    H. I. Aaronson (R. F. Mehl Professor)

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Enomoto, M., Aaronson, H.I. Nucleation kinetics of proeutectoid ferrite at austenite grain boundaries in Fe-C-X alloys. Metall Trans A 17, 1385–1397 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02650120

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