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A thermal cycling treatment was used to produce a spheroidized structure of hypoeutectoid steel from direct decomposition of supercooled austenite. Scanning electron microscopy and quantitative metallography were employed to study the changing microstructure during the thermal cycling treatment. A conventional spheroidizing annealing was also investigated for comparison. It has been shown that the thermal cycling treatment results in a structure of cementite spheroidites homogeneously distributed in a ferrite matrix within a very short processing time, and the coarsening of cementite particles is controlled by the coupled diffusion of both carbon and iron atoms.
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Chou, C.C., Kao, P.W. & Cheng, G.H. Accelerated spheroidization of hypoeutectoid steel by the decomposition of supercooled austenite. J Mater Sci 21, 3339–3344 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00553377
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