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Microstructural evolution during thermomechanical processing of a Ti-Nb interstitial-free steel just below the Ar 3 temperature

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Laboratory thermomechanical processing (TMP) experiments have been carried out to study the austenite transformation characteristics, precipitation behavior, and recrystallization of deformed ferrite for an interstitial-free (IF) steel in the temperature range just below Ar 3. For cooling rates in the range 0.1 °C s−1 to 130 °C s−1, austenite transforms to either polygonal ferrite (PF) or massive ferrite (MF). The transformation temperatures vary systematically with cooling rate and austenite condition. There is indirect evidence that the transformation rates for both PF and MF are decreased by the presence of substitutional solute atoms and precipitate particles. When unstable austenite is deformed at 850 °C, it transforms to an extremely fine strain-induced MF. Under conditions of high supersaturation of Ti, Nb, and S, (Ti,Nb) x S y precipitates form at 850 °C as coprecipitates on pre-existing (Ti,Nb)N particles and as discrete precipitates within PF grains. Pre-existing intragranular (Ti,Nb) x S y precipitates retard recrystallization and grain coarsening of PF deformed at 850 °C and result in a stable, recovered subgrain structure. The results are relevant to the design of TMP schedules for warm rolling of IF steels.

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  1. I. A. Rauf (Research Associate)

    Present address: the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Queen’s University, Canada

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Alberta, T6G 2J1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    I. A. Rauf (Research Associate)

  2. the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Queen’s University, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada

    J. D. Boyd (Professor)

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Rauf, I.A., Boyd, J.D. Microstructural evolution during thermomechanical processing of a Ti-Nb interstitial-free steel just below the Ar 3 temperature. Metall Mater Trans A 28, 1437–1443 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-997-0206-3

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