Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Microalloyed Multiphase Steel

Abstract:

Multiphase steels were obtained by using Gleeble-1500 simulator and TMCP, and were characterized by optical microscopy, SEM, TEM, EBSD (electron back-scattered diffraction) and other tests to investigate its microstructure and mechanical properties. During the simulation, the deformation temperature is 850°C, and the steels are air cooled to 750-600°C and then quenched to room temperature. The results indicate that the microstructure of the specimen is composed of ferrite and bainite. With the lowering of quenching temperature, the proportion of ferrite increases and the proportion of bainite decreases, and the bainite laths is shorter. The fine (Nb, Ti) C particles and dislocations appear in ferrite and lath bainite, and the amount of high angle grain boundary decrease after the initial increasing. The microaolloyed hot-rolled multiphase steel plate was developed by two-stage rolling, subsequently quenching to room temperature or air cooling to 600°C, then quenching to room temperature. Two typical microstructures: acicular ferrite and ferrite-bainite multiphase were obtained. The ferrite-bainite multiphase steel showed better mechanical properties, and the yield strength, tensile strength, yield ratio, uniform elongation and percentage elongation were 488Mpa, 845Mpa, 0.58, 10.3% and 21% respectively. The refinement of bainite structures, fine (Nb, Ti) C particles and the dislocations in bainite increase the strength.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 788)
• Pages: 406-413
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.788.406
• Online since: April 2014
• Authors: Yun Zhou*, Xue Min Wang, Xin Lai He
• Keywords: Hot-Rolled Multiphase Steel, Mechanical Property, Microalloyed Multiphase Steel, Microstructure, Roll Simulating, Thermo-Mechanical Controlled Processing (TMCP)

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