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The effect of 1 % Cr addition on the resistivity during preaging and peak aging of an AF1410 based steel was examined by analytical and modeling approaches. The increased kinetics of aging resulting from a chromium addition, due to a variety of complex microstructural changes,was analyzed by Avrami-Mehl and Wert-Zener formulations, which were modified so that the exponent was a function of time. Using a eneralized Avrami equation, it was shown that the nucleation rate, N(t), at short aging times was large but became a rapidly declining function as N(t) approaches zero in a supersaturated system. A mathematical solution, using AF1410 steel carbide growth data at 510 °C, confirmed reported experimental evidence of second-stage carbide nucleation at 1 to 2 h.
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Oh, Y., Machmeier, P.M., Matuszewski, T. et al. Evaluation of the nucleation and coarsening kinetic behavior of the secondary hardening carbide of Fe-HCo-10Ni-1Mo-0.16C steel at two chromium levels, using an analytical and modeling approach: Part II. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 6, 289–296 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-997-0092-2
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