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Achieving Excellent Strength–Ductility Combination by Cyclic Quenching Treatment in 22MnB5 Steel

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This work elucidated microstructure and mechanical properties of 22MnB5 steel fabricated by cyclic quenching treatment through OM/SEM and tensile tests. The influences of cyclic quenching treatment (CQT) on 22MnB5 steel based on the experimental results can be described as follows: (1) CQT can refine initial austenite grain sizes up to 4.2 μm; (2) CQT can refine lath martensite size, which may be related to the decreased initial austenite grain sizes; (3) 22MnB5 steel after 2 passes cyclic quenching exhibited tensile strength of 1703 MPa and elongation of 20.3% for the ultra-fine microstructure; (4) the vickers hardness of martensite of 22MnB5 increase from 0 pass cyclic quenching to 2 passes cyclic quenching. Therefore, excellent strength-ductility combination of 22MnB5 steel can be achieved by CQT.

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The present work was financially supported by the Research Initiation Fund of Changzhou University (No. ZMF20020321 & SIETP-2108), and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20200985), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51705038 & 51875053).

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    Haijun Pan, Chaofan Wei, Wangwang Yu, Xinyu Li & Bo Qiao

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Pan, H., Wei, C., Yu, W. et al. Achieving Excellent Strength–Ductility Combination by Cyclic Quenching Treatment in 22MnB5 Steel. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 31, 6659–6663 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-022-06737-0

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