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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 552, Issue -, Pages 502-513Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2012.05.078
Keywords
Strain-induced precipitation; Softening ratio; Recrystallization; Amount of supersaturated Nb
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [51171162]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province [E2009000443, E2011203169]
- Key Technologies R & D Program of Hebei Province [09276705D]
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The effects of Nb on strain-induced precipitation and softening were quantified by means of the Gleeble-3500 thermo-mechanical simulator and inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES). The results show that Nb cannot completely dissolve during the reheating processes in the high Nb steels. The undissolved precipitates act as heterogenous nucleation sites for the precipitates induced by the strain, and prolong the strain-induced precipitation start time shown in the stress relaxation curves. The strain-induced precipitation start time is linearly related to the content of supersaturated Nb (the difference between dissolved Nb content after soaking and dissolved Nb content in equilibrium at corresponding deformation temperature). Increasing the content of supersaturated Nb can shift the nose of the precipitation C-curve to shorter time and higher temperatures. The effect of content of supersaturated Nb on precipitation increases along with the decrease of temperature. The softening ratio is linear with dissolved Nb content before the strain-induced precipitation and with precipitable Nb content after the strain-induced precipitation. The precipitates induced by strain have more strong retarding effect on the static recrystallization than the solid solution of Nb atoms. However, with the increase of the average precipitate radius, the retarding effect of precipitate rapidly decreases. Crown Copyright (c) 2012 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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