A Study of Austenite Precipitate Growth in Duplex Stainless Steel A Research Performance Evaluation

As new experimental and characterization techniques are developed and improved, longstanding materials questions that have long been the subject of scientific debate are being revisited and answered. Such questions have surrounded the mechanism of solid-state phase transformation in ferrous systems for many years. Famous experimental and theoretical works produced such well-known metallurgists as Clarence Zener, Mats Hillert, Hubert Aaronson, and Rohit Trivedi (among many others) have now become the basis for the application of a variety of new techniques that aim to shed new light on a number of topics in this field. In the following presentation of a current study, several aspects of the physical metallurgy of phase transformations are reviewed and a variety of methods are examined in the context of austenite precipitation from ferrite in a duplex stainless steel.