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Development of a High-Strength Low-Carbon Steel with Reasonable Ductility through Thermal Cycling

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In this research work, cost-effective structural material synthesis routes have been adopted in the form of thermal cycling designed and applied on a low-cost material (AISI 1010 steel). The main synthesis route consists of two-step thermal cycling (designed with respect to iron–carbon phase diagram) combining short-duration holding in upper critical and intercritical temperature regimes and different cooling conditions (forced air cooling and ice-brine quenching). Accordingly, the adopted hierarchical design approach (from nanoscale onwards) with a combination of hard and soft phases (to attain an adequate balance between mutually exclusive strength and ductility properties) results in origin of a novel microstructure. The microstructure consists of dislocation-enriched martensite regions (possessing plate and lath morphologies in 1:4 ratio) containing nanosized cementite particles and α-ferrite regions containing submicroscopic cementite particles. As a consequence, an excellent combination of strength (UTS = 905 MPa) and ductility (%Elongation = 17) is achieved in the synthesized material.

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  1. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Durgapur, West Bengal, 713209, India

    Amir Raza Subhani, Dipak Kumar Mondal & Joydeep Maity

  2. Structure and Failure Analysis Group (SFAG), Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL), Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad, 500058, India

    Chandan Mondal

  3. NDT and Metallurgy Group, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, West Bengal, 713209, India

    Himadri Roy

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Subhani, A.R., Mondal, D.K., Mondal, C. et al. Development of a High-Strength Low-Carbon Steel with Reasonable Ductility through Thermal Cycling. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 28, 2192–2201 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-019-03969-5

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