Mechanism of Secondary Hardening in Rapid Tempering of Dual-Phase Steel
Dual-phase steel with ferrite-martensite-bainite microstructure exhibited secondary hardening in the subcritical heat affected zone during fiber laser welding. Rapid isothermal tempering conducted in a Gleeble simulator also indicated occurrence of secondary hardening at 773 K (500 °C), as confirmed...
Saved in:
Published in | Metallurgical and materials transactions. A, Physical metallurgy and materials science Vol. 45; no. 13; pp. 6153 - 6162 |
---|---|
Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Boston
Springer US
01.12.2014
Springer Springer Nature B.V |
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
Cover
Loading…
Summary: | Dual-phase steel with ferrite-martensite-bainite microstructure exhibited secondary hardening in the subcritical heat affected zone during fiber laser welding. Rapid isothermal tempering conducted in a Gleeble simulator also indicated occurrence of secondary hardening at 773 K (500 °C), as confirmed by plotting the tempered hardness against the Holloman–Jaffe parameter. Isothermally tempered specimens were characterized by analytic transmission electron microscopy and high-angle annular dark-field imaging. The cementite (Fe
3
C) and TiC located in the bainite phase of DP steel decomposed upon rapid tempering to form needle-shaped Mo
2
C (aspect ratio ranging from 10 to 25) and plate-shaped M
4
C
3
carbides giving rise to secondary hardening. Precipitation of these thermodynamically stable and coherent carbides promoted the hardening phenomenon. However, complex carbides were only seen in the tempered bainite and were not detected in the tempered martensite. The martensite phase decomposed into ferrite and spherical Fe
3
C, and interlath-retained austenite decomposed into ferrite and elongated carbide. |
---|---|
Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1073-5623 1543-1940 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11661-014-2591-8 |