Continuous Cooling Phase Transformation Rules of High Nb X80 Pipeline Steel

Abstract:

The microstructural evolution of the high Nb X80 pipeline steel in Continuous Cooling Transformation (CCT) by Gleeble-3500HS thermal mechanical simulation testing system was studied, the corresponding CCT curves were drawn and the influence of some parameters such as deformation and cooling rate on microstructure of high Nb X80 pipeline steel was analyzed. The results show that as cooling rate increased, the phase transformation temperature of high Nb X80 steel decreased, with the microstructure transformation from ferrite-pearlite to acicular ferrite and bainite-ferrite. When cooling rate was between 20°C/s and 30°C/s, the microstructure was comparatively ideal acicular ferrite, thermal deformation accelerates phase transformation notably and made the dynamic CCT curves move upward and the initial temperature of phase transformation increase obviously. Meanwhile the thermal deformation refined acicular ferrite and extended the range of cooling rate accessible to acicular ferrite.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 850)
• Pages: 916-921
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.850.916
• Online since: March 2016
• Authors: Pei Pei Xia*, Liu Qing Yang, Xiao Jiang Guo, Ye Zheng Li
• Keywords: CCT, High Nb X80 Pipeline Steel, Influence Factor, Microstructure Feature

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