In conventional steels, bainitic microstructure which forms under isothermal conditions consists of ferrite and carbide precipitates whose distribution size substantially depend on the pa-rameters treatment. CFB steels (Carbide Free Bainite) however, main micro-structural constituents are ferrite, retained austenite and, sometimes, M-A constituent. may possess better ductility same or even high...

This article introduces the microstructural and mechanical properties of low medium-carbon advanced martensitic steels (AMSs) subjected to heat-treatment, hot- warm- working, and/or case-hardening processes. The AMSs developed for sheet wire rod products have a tensile strength higher than 1.5 GPa, good cold-formability, superior toughness fatigue strength, delayed fracture due mixture martensi...

The microstructural evolution of Fe–0.2C–5Mn steel during intercritical annealing with holding time for up to 144 hours was examined by TEM and STEM. It was demonstrated by TEM that the martensite lath structure gradually transformed into a lamellar ferrite and austenite duplex structure. The partitioning of manganese from ferrite to austenite was found by STEM. Typical Kurdjumov-Sachs orientat...

The combined influence of prior plastic strain in the austenite, and applied stress in the course of the transformation, on the crystallographic texture of a bainitic steel was studied in this work. The experimental data were obtained using Electron Back Scatter Diffraction (EBSD) method and analyzed using two methodologically different approaches. It was concluded that the plastic deformation ...