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The stability of precipitated austenite and the toughness of 9Ni steel

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A correlation was confirmed between the good low temperature Charpy toughness of 9Ni steel and the stability of its precipitated austenite against the martensitic transformation. Changes in the microstructure during isothermal tempering were studied in detail. The austenite/martensite interface is originally quite coherent over ∼100 A distances. With further tempering, however, the dislocation structure at the austenite/martensite interface changes, and this change may be related to the increased instability of the austenite particles. The reduction in austenite carbon concentration does not seem large enough to account for the large reduction in austenite stability with tempering time. The strains inherent to the transformation of austenite particles create dislocation structures in the tempered martensite. The large deterioration of the Charpy toughness of overtempered material is attributed, in part, to these dislocation structures.

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  1. Keck Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, CA

    B. Fultz (Assistant Professor of Materials)

  2. IBM, 10598, Yorktown Heights, NY

    J. I. Kim (Project Leader) & Y. H. Kim (Researcher)

  3. Welding Research Institute, Ulsan, Korea

    H. J. Kim (Manager)

  4. P.O. Box 10, 94948, Novato, CA

    G. O. Fior (Researcher)

  5. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA

    J. W. Morris (Professor of Metallurgy, Berkeley and Faculty Senior Scientist)

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Fultz, B., Kim, J.I., Kim, Y.H. et al. The stability of precipitated austenite and the toughness of 9Ni steel. Metall Trans A 16, 2237–2249 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02670423

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