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Effect of Laser Hardening and Gas Nitriding on Wear Resistance of Steel P20: A Comparative Study
The effect of laser hardening and of gas nitriding on the microstructure and wear resistance of steel P20 (the Russian counterpart is 38KhNM) is studied. The phase composition and the microhardness of the hard...
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Effect of Initial Microstructure on Mechanical Properties of Pressure Vessel Steel after Intercritical Heat Treatment
The influence of the initial structure on formation of austenite, evolution of structure, and elevation of operating characteristics of steel SA508 Gr.3 (0.24% C, 1.40% Mn, 0.88% Ni, 0.54% Mo) after an intercr...
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Analysis of Martensitic Transformation Plasticity Under Various Loadings in a Low-Carbon Steel: An Elastoplastic Phase Field Study
An elastoplastic phase field model for the martensitic transformation of a Fe-0.22C-1.58Mn-0.81Si (wt pct) alloy was developed, to investigate transformation plasticity in response to uniaxial, biaxial, shear ...
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Effect of Cyclic Intercritical Tempering on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of a Low-Carbon Cu-Bearing 7Ni Steel
High strength and toughness are usually hard to obtain simultaneously because of the trade-off. In this research, cyclic intercritical tempering (IT) was applied to a low-carbon Cu-bearing 7Ni steel to pursue ...
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Microstructure Formation and Tailoring of the Intermetallic TiAl Alloy Produced by Direct Laser Deposition
This study investigates the microstructure morphology in a single-track wall of Ti-47Al-2Cr-2Nb alloy produced by direct laser deposition. The as-deposited wall mainly exhibited an alternative-band microstruct...
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A Novel Method to Calculate the Carbides Fraction from Dilatometric Measurements During Cooling in Hot-Work Tool Steel
Dilatometry is a useful technique to obtain experimental data concerning transformation. In this paper, a dilation conversional model was established to calculate carbides fraction in AISI H13 hot-work tool st...
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Compositional Variants of Cu-rich Precipitate in Thermally Aged Ferritic Steel
Atom probe tomography was utilized to investigate Cu precipitation in a high-strength low-alloy steel isothermally aged at 500 °C for 1, 4, 16, and 64 h after water-quenching from 900 °C. With prolonged aging ...
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Open AccessBainite Transformation Characteristics of High-Si Hypereutectoid Bearing Steel
In this work, the bainite transformation characteristics of a high-Si hypereutectoid (1.3 wt.% Si, 1 wt.% C) bearing steel was analyzed by means of microstructural observation and dilatometric experiment. The ...
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Effect of Macrosegregation on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of a Pressure-Vessel Steel
Macrosegregation refers to the chemical segregation, which occurs quite commonly in the large forgings such as nuclear reactor pressure vessel. This work assesses the effect of macrosegregation and homogenizat...
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Microstructure Evolution of a Reactor Pressure Vessel Steel During High-Temperature Tempering
The electron microscopy techniques were employed to analyze the microstructure evolution during high-temperature tempering of a reactor pressure vessel steel. The results show that carbon enriched martensite/a...
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Microstructural Evolution and Carbide Precipitation in a Heat-Treated H13 Hot Work Mold Steel
The microstructure and carbide precipitation for a H13 hot work mold steel after heat treatment and stabilization treatment at 620 °C for up to 20 h were investigated by optical microscopy, electron backscatte...
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Effect of Multistage Heat Treatment on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of High-Strength Low-Alloy Steel
The influence of Cu-rich precipitates (CRPs) and reverted austenite (RA) on the strength and impact toughness of a Cu-containing 3.5 wt pct Ni high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) steel after various heat treatments...
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Effect of interstitial solutes on precipitation behavior of 9–12% chromium ferritic steels
Effects of nitrogen and carbon content on precipitation behavior in two 9–12% Cr ferritic heat-resistant steels during isothermal transformation were investigated. Isothermal aging treatments at 700 °C after s...
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On the Role of Ni in Cu Precipitation in Multicomponent Steels
The nature of Cu precipitation in quench-tempered multicomponent high-strength low-alloy steels is characterized by atom probe tomography. The detected nanometer sized Ni-rich clusters act as preferential nucl...
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LnPO4: RE3+ (La = La, Gd; RE = Eu, Tb) nanocrystals: solvo-thermal synthesis, microstructure and photoluminescence
Through altering the solvents, we have obtained the Eu3+/Tb3+ ions-doped LnPO4 (Ln = La, Gd) phosphors with different particle sizes, microstructures and morphologies via a facile solvo-thermal technology. X-ray ...