Austenite Grain Growth Kinetics in a Low C-Mn Steel and a Ti-Nb-V Microalloyed Steel

Abstract:

The effect of thermal processing (TMP) parameters on grain growth in a low C - Mn steel and a C - Mn steel microalloyed with Nb, Ti and V were compared as part of a wider study on grain growth in microalloyed steels. The grain growth rate was found to be low at low temperatures and short soaking times but increases significantly with both increasing temperature and time. The activation energy Q, the grain growth equation constants n and A were found to be higher in the microalloyed steel than the plain C-Mn steel. A constitutive model for predicting austenite grain growth in the low C-Mn steel and the microalloyed steel has been developed. The predictive potential of the model is in good agreement with the experimental data.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1019)
• Pages: 327-332
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1019.327
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: K.A. Annan*, Charles Witness Siyasiya, Waldo Edmund Stumpf, Kevin Mark Banks, A.S. Tuling
• Keywords: Austenitizing, Constitutive Modeling, Grain Growth, Microalloyed

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