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JOURNAL OF IRON AND STEEL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 69-74Publisher
JOURNAL IRON STEEL RESEARCH EDITORIAL BOARD
DOI: 10.1016/S1006-706X(09)60013-3
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non-metallic inclusion; magnesium; acicular ferrite; coarse-grained heat affected zone (CGHAZ)
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Effects of Mg on the chemical component and size distribution of Ti-bearing inclusions favored grain refinement of the welding induced coarse-grained heat affected zone (CGHAZ), with enhanced impact toughness in Ti-killed steels, which were examined based on experimental observations and thermodynamic calculations. The results indicated that the chemical constituents of the inclusions gradually varied from the Ti-O+Ti-Mg-O compound oxide to the Ti-Mg-O+MgO compound oxide and the single-phase MgO, as the Mg content increased from 0.002 3% to 0.006%. A trace addition of Mg (approximately 0.002%) led to the refinement of Ti-bearing inclusions by creating the Ti-Mg-O compound oxide and provided favorable size distribution of the inclusions for acicular ferrite transformation with a high nucleation rate in the CGHAZ, and a high volume fraction of acicular ferrite was obtained in the CGHAZ with enhanced impact toughness. Otherwise, a high content of Mg (approximately 0.006%) produced a single-phase MgO, which was impotent to nucleate an acicular ferrite, and a microstructure comprised of a ferrite side plate and a grain boundary ferrite developed in the CGHAZ. The experimental results were confirmed by thermodynamic calculations.
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