Growth and overall transformation kinetics above the bay temperature in Fe-C-Mo alloys |
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Authors: | G J Shiflet H I Aaronson |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Materials Science, University of Virginia, 22903 Charlottesville, VA;(2) Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213 Pittsburgh, PA |
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Abstract: | The kinetics and morphology of isothermal transformation in the vicinity of the time-temperaturetransformation (TTT) diagram
bay have been investigated with optical and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in 19 Fe-C-Mo alloys at three levels of
carbon concentration (approximately 0.15, 0.20, and 0.25 wt pct) and at Mo concentrations from 2.3 to 4.3 wt pct, essentially
always at temperatures above or at that of the bay,T
b
. Quantitative metallography yielded no evidence for incomplete transformation (stasis) in any of these alloys atT > T
b
. Measurements of the thickening kinetics of grain boundary ferrite allotriomorphs (invariably containing either interphase
boundary or fibrous Mo2C) demonstrated four different patterns of behavior. The customary parabolic time law for allotriomorph thickening in Fe-C
and in many Fe-C-X systems was obtained only at higher temperatures and in the more dilute Fe-C-Mo alloys studied. With decreasing
temperature and increasing solute concentrations, a two-stage and then two successive variants of a three-stage thickening
process are found. In the most concentrated alloys and at temperatures nearest the bay, the second stage of the three-stage
thickening process corresponds to “growth stasis”—the cessation of allotriomorph thickening. Sufficient prolongation of growth
stasis presumably leads to “transformation stasis.” A number of models for growth of the carbide-containing allotriomorphs
were investigated during attempts to explain the observed kinetics. It was concluded that their growth is controlled by carbon
diffusion in austenite but with a driving force drastically reduced by a very strong solute drag-like effect (SDLE) induced
by Mo segregation at disordered-type austenite: ferrite boundaries. Carbide growth in the fibrous structure appears to be
fed by diffusion of Mo along austenite: ferrite boundaries, whereas carbides in the interphase boundary structure grow primarily
by volume diffusion of Mo through austenite.
Formerly Republic Steel Corporation Fellow, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton,
MI, and Visiting Graduate Student, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA.
Formerly Professor, Michigan Technological University.
This paper is based on a presentation made in the symposium “International Conference on Bainite” presented at the 1988 World
Materials Congress in Chicago, IL, on September 26 and 27, 1988, under the auspices of the ASM INTERNATIONAL Phase Transformations
Committee and the TMS Ferrous Metallurgy Committee. |
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