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Effect of Silicon Content on Carbide Precipitation and Low-Temperature Toughness of Pressure Vessel Steels

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Cr – Mn – Mo – Ni pressure vessel steels containing 0.54 and 1.55% Si are studied. Metallographic and fractographic analyses of the steels after tempering at 650 and 700°C are performed. The impact toughness at – 30°C and the hardness of the steels are determined. The mass fraction of the carbide phase in the steels is computed with the help of the J-MatPro 4.0 software.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Wuhan International Science and Technology Corporation Program (No. 2014030709020307).

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  1. The State Key Laboratory of Refectories and Metallurgy, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Steels, International Research Institute for Steel Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    L. H. Ruan, K. M. Wu, J. A. Qiu & A. A. Shirzadi

  2. Department of Engineering and Innovation, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    A. A. Shirzadi

  3. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    A. A. Shirzadi

  4. I. P. Bardin Central Research Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy, Moscow, Russia

    I. G. Rodionova

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Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 2, pp. 33 – 37, February, 2017.

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Ruan, L.H., Wu, K.M., Qiu, J.A. et al. Effect of Silicon Content on Carbide Precipitation and Low-Temperature Toughness of Pressure Vessel Steels. Met Sci Heat Treat 59, 97–101 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11041-017-0110-4

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