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Kinetic Transition during Ferrite Growth in Fe-C-Mn Medium Carbon Steel

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The kinetics of austenite-to-ferrite diffusional transformation in a medium carbon Fe-C-Mn steel was calculated based on classical nucleation and growth theory coupled with CALPHAD multicomponent thermodynamics. The description of the growth rate of proeutectoid ferrite includes a time dependence due to the carbon enrichment in the remaining austenite. The experimentally slower kinetics, especially a stagnating behavior at the later stage, was successfully reproduced when a transition from initial paraequilibrium (PE) to local equilibrium negligible partition (LENP) conditions at the austenite:ferrite (γ/α) interface was assumed. This transition is allowed when the velocity of the moving γ/α interface is slow enough to be compared with Mn diffusivity, which leads to build up of a Mn spike in the interface. This assumption is consistent with a series of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) analyses for Mn and C, which indicates that initial unpartitioned Mn ferrite growth is replaced by partitioned growth.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for funding this research under Contract No. MAT2007–63873. One of the authors (JC) acknowledges the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Inovación for financial support in the form of a Ph.D. research grant (FPI). CC and JC thank Juan Luis Baldonedo, Centro de Microscopía (UCM), for the help in PIPS sample preparation.

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  1. Materalia Research Group, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas (CENIM-CSIC), E-28040, Madrid, Spain

    C. Capdevila (Senior Scientist) & J. Cornide (Postdoctoral Student)

  2. Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc, Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1192, Japan

    K. Tanaka (Senior Researcher) & K. Nakanishi (Senior Researcher and Research Manager)

  3. CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, 100-0004, Japan

    K. Tanaka (Senior Researcher) & K. Nakanishi (Senior Researcher and Research Manager)

  4. Centro de Microscopía y Citometría, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, E-28040, Madrid, Spain

    E. Urones-Garrote (Titulado Superior)

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Capdevila, C., Cornide, J., Tanaka, K. et al. Kinetic Transition during Ferrite Growth in Fe-C-Mn Medium Carbon Steel. Metall Mater Trans A 42, 3719–3728 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-011-0650-y

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