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MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION
Volume 67, Issue -, Pages 41-51Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2012.02.007
Keywords
Steels; Acicular ferrite; Weld metal; Electron backscattered diffraction; Three-dimensional morphology
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- NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China)
- Baosteel [50734004]
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Microstructural features and the formation mechanisms of interlocked microstructures of acicular ferrite in a low-carbon high-strength steel weld metal were investigated by means of computer-aided three-dimensional reconstruction technique and electron back-scattered diffraction analysis. Multiple nucleation on inclusions, sympathetic nucleation or repeated nucleation, hard impingement, mutual intersection, and fixed orientation relationships of acicular ferrite grains were observed. They were all responsible for the formation of interlocked microstructures in the weld metal. During the process of isothermal transformation, the pre-formed acicular ferrite laths or plates partitioned austenite grains into many small and separate regions, and the growth of later formed acicular ferrite grains was confined in these small regions. Thus, the crystallographic grain size became smaller with the increasing holding time. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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