Grain Refinement of a Cold Rolled TRIP Assisted Steel after Ultra Short Annealing

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Recrystallization and austenite formation in a TRIP-assisted steel during conventional and ultra fast reheating for intercritical annealing are studied with the purpose to clarify the possibility for grain refinement. Partially recrystallized (or transformed) samples were prepared by reheating and water quenching to temperatures between 650 and 1050°C at reheating rates of 10, 50, and 3000 °C/s, respectively, without isothermal soaking from 95% cold rolled steel sheet with ferrite-pearlite microstructure. By monitoring the hardness and microstructure, it was shown that the increase of the reheating rate from 10 to 3000°C/s causes grain refinement from 5µm to 1µm in diameter and the final ferrite grain size depends significantly on both reheating temperature and reheating rate. It was observed that after an extreme reheating rate of 3000°C/s the α-γ phase transformation starts before the completion of the recrystallization. This opens up possibilities for further structural refinement and alternative texture control.

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Materials Science Forum (Volumes 715-716)

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661-666

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April 2012

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