A microscopic investigation of the precipitation phenomena observed during the pearlite reaction in vanadium alloyed carbon steels
- Univ. of Leeds (United Kingdom). School of Materials
- National Technical Univ. of Athens (Greece). Lab. of Physical Metallurgy
During the isothermal pearlitic transformation in vanadium alloyed low and medium carbon steels the formation of proeutectoid ferrite precedes that of pearlitic formation. Within this proeutectoid ferrite interphase precipitation of vanadium carbide (VC) occurs in a form of linear uniformly sized and shaped arrays of particles. When pearlite subsequently forms, two distinctive pearlitic morphologies exist. Lamellar and non-lamellar spheroidized types of pearlite. Within the pearlitic constituent of both of these pearlitic microstructures VC interphase precipitation occurs. However, in the lamellar type of pearlite curved arrays of uniformly sized and shaped VC particles whose direction is perpendicular to the cementite long axis are observed while in the non-lamellar type of pearlite apparently random distributions of VC particles exist. It was consistently found that VC interphase precipitation always occurred on the moving austenite/ferrite interphase boundaries at all temperatures of isothermal pearlitic transformation.
- OSTI ID:
- 116122
- Journal Information:
- Acta Metallurgica et Materialia, Journal Name: Acta Metallurgica et Materialia Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 43; ISSN 0956-7151; ISSN AMATEB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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