Pearlite

About: Pearlite is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6028 publications have been published within this topic receiving 65695 citations.

A survey of eutectoid decomposition in ten Ti-X systems

Abstract: The mechanism of eutectoid decomposition in ten Ti-X binary systems, wherein X was successively Bi, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Pd and Pt, has been investigated. In hypo-eutectoid alloys, the bainite reaction (defined in the present context as a nonlamellar dispersion of intermetallic compound particles amongst proeutectoid a) predominated in all alloys studied but Ti-Cu, where both bainite and pear lite were formed. In alloys of near eutectoid composition pearlite was the dominant product in some systems and bainite was in others. These results are essentially independent of reaction temperature. They are quite different from analogous ones in Fe-C alloys, where pearlite is the principal eutectoid structure formed at high temperatures and bainite plays this role at low tem-peratures. The difference between the Ti-X and Fe-C behaviors was explained in terms of the much more pronounced tendency for proeutectoid α plate formation in Ti-X than in Fe-C alloys and, on a theory due to Hillert, of the need for disordered interphase boundaries in order to develop the cooperative growth mode that leads to the evolution of pearlite.

Effect of initial microstructure on the work hardening behavior of plain eutectoid steel

Abstract: Work hardening capability and tensile properties of the plain eutectoid steel rods are the key factors in the wire drawing process to fabricate high strength wire rods with a minimum failure. In the present research, the work hardening behavior of eutectoid steel with different initial microstructures of bainite, duplex bainite+pearlite, pearlite, partially spheroidized and spheroidized pearlite was assessed in terms of instantaneous work hardening exponent ( n value) and work hardening rate ( θ ) using room temperature tensile test. The results show an inverse parabolic behavior for variation of instantaneous n value versus true strain, i.e., work hardening exponent initially increases up to a maximum value and then decreases. The bainitic microstructure exhibits the lowest n value, whereas the spheroidized pearlitic one shows the highest. It is shown that the fine pearlitic microstructure containing partially spheroidized regions exhibited the best combination of tensile properties, n value and work hardening rate.

Austenite nucleation and growth observed on the level of individual grains by three-dimensional X-ray diffraction microscopy

Abstract: Austenite nucleation and growth is studied during continuous heating using three-dimensional X-ray diffraction (3-D XRD) microscopy at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) (Grenoble, France). Unique in-situ observations of austenite nucleation and growth kinetics were made for two commercial medium-carbon low-alloy steels (0.21 and 0.35 wt pct carbon with an initial microstructure of ferrite and pearlite). The measured austenite volume fraction as a function of temperature shows a two-step behavior for both steel grades: it starts with a rather fast pearlite-to-austenite transformation, which is followed by a more gradual ferrite-to-austenite transformation. The austenite nucleus density exhibits similar behavior, with a sharp increase during the first stage of the transformation and a more gradual increase in the nucleus density in the second stage for the 0.21 wt pct carbon alloy. For the 0.35 wt pct carbon alloy, no new nuclei form during the second stage. Three different types of growth of austenite grains in the ferrite/pearlite matrix were observed. The combination of detailed separate observations of both nucleation and growth provides unique quantitative information on the phase transformation kinetics during heating, i.e., austenite formation from ferrite and pearlite.