It was demonstrated that during cold plastic deformation of coarse-plate pearlite in C steel, planar cementite defects play the key role in deformation transfer through interphase boundaries and promote dissolution of cementite plates. It was first established that the austenite substructure formed upon high-temperature deformation was inherited by cementite and ferrite components of pearlite during the subsequent phase transformation.

Dislocation Structure of Coarse-Plate Pearlite in Carbon Steel after Cold and High-Temperature Strain. V.M.Schastlivtsev, I.L.Yakovleva, L.E.Karkina, Y.V.Khlebnikov, T.I.Tabatchikova, V.N.Urtsev: Russian Physics Journal, 2004, 47[8], 807-17