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the Korean Journal of Metals and Materials

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the Korean Journal of Metals and Materials

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Title Joint - Syposium on Fine - Grained Materials by the Phase Transformation Committee ( Eighth ) and the Ferrous Metallurgy Committee ( Second ) : Fine - Grained steels ; Intragranular Ferrite Nucleation and Grain Refinement of Ti - Containing Low Carbon Ste
Authors 심재혁(Jae Hyeok Shim) ; 조영환(Young Whan Cho) ; 정순효(Soon Hyo Chung) ; 심재동(Jae Dong Shim) ; 이동녕(Dong Nyung Lee)
Page pp.1993-2002
ISSN 0253-3847
Abstract The concept of oxide metallurgy was applied to Ti-containing low carbon steels in order to investigate the effect of fine Ti-oxide inclusions on the microstructures and mechanical properties of the steels. When Ti-containing low carbon steels were cooled at a rate of 3 to 6 K/sec after austenitized at 1623 K, fine intragranular acicular ferrite was formed instead of relatively coarse Widmansta¨tten ferrite which forms without Ti addition under the same austenitizing and cooling conditions. The effective grain size and volume fraction of acicular ferrite were found to be dependent of austenite grain size, cooling rate, and chemical composition of steels. It has been observed that once the acicular ferrite nucleation is initiated at the surface of titanium oxide inclusion, the so-called sympathetic nucleation seems to be prevalent in the rest of the nucleation process. The ultimate tensile strength, yield ratio, and elongation were about 600 ㎫. 0.8, and 24%. respectively, when the composition of steel is 0.14%C, 1.8%Mn, 0.18%Si, 0.011%Ti, 0.003%O, and 0.001%N.