Nucleation kinetics of proeutectoid ferrite at austenite grain boundaries in Fe-C-X alloys |
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Authors: | M Enomoto H I Aaronson |
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Affiliation: | (1) Tsukuba Laboratories, National Research Institute for Metals, 1-2-1 Sengen, Sakura-Mura, Niihari-Gun, 305 Ibaraki, Japan;(2) Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, 15213 Pittsburgh, PA |
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Abstract: | The nucleation kinetics of proeutectoid ferrite allotriomorphs at austenite grain boundaries in Fe-0.5 at. Pct C-3 at. Pct
X alloys, where X is successively Mn, Ni, Co, and Si and in an Fe-0.8 at. Pct C-2.5 at. Pct Mo alloy have been measured using
previously developed experimental techniques. The results were analyzed in terms of the influence of substitutional alloying
elements upon the volume free energy change and upon the energies of austenite grain boundaries and nucleus: matrix boundaries.
Classical nucleation theory was employed in conjunction with the pillbox model of the critical nucleus applied during the
predecessor study of ferrite nucleation kinetics at grain boundaries in Fe-C alloys. The free energy change associated with
nucleation was evaluated from both the Hillert-Staffanson and the Central Atoms Models of interstitial-substitutional solid
solutions. The grain boundary concentrations of X determined with a Scanning Auger Microprobe were utilized to calculate the
reduction in the austenite grain boundary energy produced by the segregation of alloying elements. Analysis of these data
in terms of nucleation theory indicates that much of the influence of X upon ferrite nucleation rate derives from effects
upon the volume-free energy change,i.e., upon alterations in the path of theγ/(α + γ) phase boundary. Additional effects arise from reductions in austenite grain boundary energy, with austenite-forming alloying
elements being more effective in this regard than ferrite-formers. By difference, the remaining influence of the alloy elements
studied evidently results from their ability to diminish the energies of the austenite: ferrite boundaries enclosing the critical
nucleus. The role of nucleation kinetics in the formation of a bay in the TTT diagram of Fe-C-Mo alloys is also considered.
Formerly Graduate Student, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Carnegie-Mellon University |
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