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Microstructure in low-carbon low-alloy high-strength pipe steel

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The microstructure of a broad range of low-carbon low-alloy high-strength pipe steels produced by thermomechanical treatment is studied by transmission electron microscopy. Such steels consist of a mixture of various types of ferrite matrix with high-carbon phases and structural components. The classification of the structures is refined, with separate consideration of the components forming the low-carbon ferrite matrix and the high-carbon components that appear as isolated regions and also as layers and inclusions in bainitic ferrite. A deformational dilatometer is used to determine the temperatures ranges in which the various phases and structural components are formed.

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    M. Yu. Matrosov, I. V. Lyasotskii, A. A. Kichkina, D. L. D’yakonov & A. A. Efimov

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Original Russian Text © M.Yu. Matrosov, I.V. Lyasotskii, A.A. Kichkina, D.L. D’yakonov, A.A. Efimov, 2012, published in “Stal’,” 2012, No. 1, pp. 65‐74.

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Matrosov, M.Y., Lyasotskii, I.V., Kichkina, A.A. et al. Microstructure in low-carbon low-alloy high-strength pipe steel. Steel Transl. 42, 84–93 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0967091212010135

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