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STEEL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
Volume 84, Issue 4, Pages 370-376Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/srin.201200161
Keywords
low carbon microalloyed steel; continuous casting; cooling rate; microstructure; second-phase precipitation
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- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2011M501289]
- Hunan Province Science and Technology Plan Projects of China [2012GK3165]
- Baoshan Iron and Steel Research Institute
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During the continuous casting of low-carbon NbTi microalloyed steel, control of the slab surface microstructure and the behavior of the second-phase precipitation are significantly influenced by the cooling rate. Through confocal laser scanning microscopy, the effect of the cooling rate on the behavior of ferrite precipitation both at the grain boundary and within the austenite was observed in situ and analyzed. The relationship between the cooling rate and precipitation of the microalloying elements on the slab surface microstructure was further analyzed by transmission electron microscopy. The results showed that the effect of microalloying element precipitation on proeutectoid ferrite phase transformation is mainly manifested in two aspects: (i) the carbonitrides of microalloying elements act as inoculant particles to promote nucleation of the proeutectoid ferrite and (ii) the carbon near the grain boundary is depleted when the microalloying elements precipitate into carbonitrides, inducing a decrease in the local carbon concentration and promoting ferrite precipitation.
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