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Particle Stimulated Nucleation in Coarse-Grained Ferritic Stainless Steel

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Particle-stimulated nucleation (PSN) is investigated in Nb-containing ferritic stainless steel. Coarse-grained sheets were cold rolled to 80 pct thickness reduction and annealed from 973 K to 998 K (700 °C to 725 °C) to obtain partially recrystallized microstructures. Electron backscatter diffraction was performed around coarse niobium carbonitride particles (larger than 1 μm) within coarse grains (~1 mm), with different host orientations in both deformed and annealed states. In the deformed state, the deformation zones around both spherical and rectangular particles were investigated. The local lattice rotations about the transverse direction necessary to accommodate the particle-matrix strain incompatibility were observed in all grains investigated. After annealing, recrystallization occurs preferentially around coarse particles at the initial stages of recrystallization. Based on a total number of 130 grains nucleated via PSN, we observe both, randomly oriented and minor {111}〈110〉 oriented texture components. The results also reveal that PSN in this material is not associated with a specific host orientation.

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The authors acknowledge Brazilian research funding agencies FAPESP (Grant no. 05/60131-5) and CNPq for providing financial support for this work. We also thank Dr. T. R. Oliveira (Aperam S.A, Brazil) for supplying the steel used in the investigation. The kind assistance of Mrs. Katja Angenendt (MPI-E, Düsseldorf) in both metallographic preparation and EBSD sessions is deeply acknowledged.

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais, Escola de Engenharia de Lorena, University of Sao Paulo, Lorena, SP, 12600-970, Brazil

    Rodrigo Pinto de Siqueira (PostDoc) & Hugo Ricardo Zschommler Sandim (Associate Professor)

  2. Max-Planck Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE), 40237, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Dierk Raabe (Professor)

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de Siqueira, R.P., Sandim, H.R.Z. & Raabe, D. Particle Stimulated Nucleation in Coarse-Grained Ferritic Stainless Steel. Metall Mater Trans A 44, 469–478 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-012-1408-x

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