The influence of aluminium on the microstructure of austempered ductile cast iron (ADI) has been studied. The presence of well distributed graphite in the matrix, and a relatively high volume fraction of retained austenite are responsible for the good mechanical properties of the Aluminium alloyed austempered ductile irons including excellent wear resistance, higher resistance to thermal shock,...

Steels with a mixed microstructure of allotriomorphic ferrite, bainitic ferrite, retained austenite and martensite have potentially good combinations of high strength and formability. This work describes a kinetic theory for the formation of bainite in steels where the precipitation of carbides is suppressed. The theory is based on the mechanism of transformation. It includes, for example, a nu...

In this study, the correlation between HAZ microstructure and low temperature impact toughness of bainitic steel plates was investigated. The Steel with high carbon content finish cooling has a higher volume fraction large packet size granular bainite compared to temperature. room tensile properties two steels are similar, mostly because is composed acicular ferrite having fine grains. On other...

Some applications of phase transformation theory towards the exploitation of bainitic microstructures are discussed , with particular emphasis on the quantitative aspects of alloying element effects. Examples are used to illustrate the principles involved in the design of advanced bainitic alloys of the type currently under investigation in the steel industry.

Bainitic microstructures obtained in high-carbon (HC) and high-silicon (HSi) steels are currently of great interest. Microstructural evolution the bainitic transformation kinetics a cast steel held at 280, 330, 380 °C was analyzed using dilatometry, X-ray diffraction, optical scanning electron microscopy, backscatter diffraction (EBSD). It is shown that heterogeneous distribution silicon (Si), ...

In situ neutron diffraction experiment was used during tensile testing at room temperature to examine the changes on the percentage and texture of both ferrite and austenite in a nanocrystalline bainitic steels transformed at two different temperatures 200°C and 300oC for different times to achieve the same phase percentages. Both samples showed an inadequate capability of austenite to transfor...

The influence of bainite morphology on the impact toughness behaviour of a continuously cooled cementite free low carbon C-Mn-B type of steel has been examined. Different bainite morphologies were obtained by cooling from the austenite regime to ambient temperature with different cooling rates. The resulting microstructures have been quantitatively analysed using light optical microscopy (LOM),...

Three low-carbon bainitic steels were designed to investigate the effects of Cr and Al addition on bainitic transformation, microstructures, and properties by metallographic method and dilatometry. The results show that compared with the base steel without Cr and Al addition, only Cr addition is effective for improving the strength of low-carbon bainitic steel by increasing the amount of bainit...

The development of nano/ultrafine bainitic structure in AISI 52100 steel was the goal of this study. For this purpose,the AISI 52100 the specimens were austenitized at 1050 °C for 60 min followed by low-temperature austemperingtreatment at different temperatures and times. The austempered samples were characterized using field emissionscanning electron microscopy (FESEM), X-ra...