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Magnetic Field-Induced Precipitation Behaviors of Alloy Carbides M2C, M3C, and M6C in a Molybdenum-Containing Steel

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The effect of a 12-T high magnetic field on alloy carbide precipitation in an Fe-C-Mo alloy during tempering at an intermediate temperature was investigated. Thin foils and carbon extraction replicas of the treated specimens were examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The results show that the applied high field effectively promoted the precipitation of (Fe,Mo)6C alloy carbide. The concentration of Fe atom in Fe6−x Mo x C carbide is increased whereas that of Mo atom decreased when the high magnetic field was applied. However, the high magnetic field almost had no detectable influence on the atom concentration in (Fe,Mo)2C and (Fe,Mo)3C carbides. First principle calculations have been performed to calculate the magnetic moment per iron atom of the carbides to explore the origin of the effect of the magnetic field. The influence of the high magnetic field on the precipitation behaviors of alloy carbides was closely related to the magnetic moment of (Fe,Mo)2C, (Fe,Mo)3C, and (Fe,Mo)6C. The magnetic field promotes the formation of the carbides with high total magnetic moment. The effect of the high magnetic field on the substitutional solute atom (Fe and Mo) concentration change in the three alloy carbides was attributed to their magnetization differences per Fe atom.

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The authors express their thanks to Professor M. Enomoto, Ibaraki University, Japan, for providing the specimens. Thanks are also expressed to the Electromagnetic Process Lab of the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education in Northeastern University for their help in magnetic field heat treatment and the Center for Electron Microscopy Wuhan University. The authors are grateful to the financial support for this work from the State Ministry of Education (Grant No. NCET-05-0680), Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (Grant No. 2006ABB037), and International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of China (Grant No. S2012ZR0211).

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  1. Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Steels, International Research Institute for Steel Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, People’s Republic of China

    T. P. Hou (Lecturer), Y. Li (Associate Professor) & K. M. Wu (Professor)

  2. LEM3, CNRS UMR 7239, Université de Lorraine, 57045, Metz, France

    Y. D. Zhang (Research Engineer)

  3. Laboratory of Excellence on Design of Alloy Metals for low-mAss Structures (DAMAS), Université de Lorraine, 57045, Metz, France

    Y. D. Zhang (Research Engineer)

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Hou, T.P., Li, Y., Zhang, Y.D. et al. Magnetic Field-Induced Precipitation Behaviors of Alloy Carbides M2C, M3C, and M6C in a Molybdenum-Containing Steel. Metall Mater Trans A 45, 2553–2561 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-014-2188-2

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