Diffusional growth limitation and hardenability |
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Authors: | D E Coates |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Metallurgy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada |
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Abstract: | It has long been recognized that the effects of alloying elements on the hardenability of steels is related directly to their
effects on the nucleation and growth kinetics of proeutectoid and eutectoid austenite decomposition products. In the present
paper, theoretical and experimental studies of proeutectoid-ferrite and pearlite growth are reviewed for systems of the form
Fe-C-X, where X is a substitutional alloying element such as Co, Cr, Mn, Mo, Ni, Si, and so forth. Of principle interest is
the limitation which an alloying element X imposes on the corresponding diffusional growth kinetics. Although the agreement
between theory and experiment is reasonable for most systems, there remain areas of considerable controversy (e.g., the role of interface diffusion, whether or not local equilibrium is maintained at interfaces and solute segregation to
interfaces).
This paper is based on a presentation made at a symposium on “Hardenability” held at the Cleveland Meeting of The Metallurgical
Society of AIME, October 17, 1972, under the sponsorship of the IMD Heat Treatment Committee.
Note added in proof: Boswellet al. have initiated a theoretical treatment of the “impurity drag” effect of carbide formers on proeutectoid ferrite growth. |
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