Acicular ferrite formation during hot plate rolling for pipeline steels
Zhao, MC, Shan, YY, Xiao, FR and Yang, K (2003) Acicular ferrite formation during hot plate rolling for pipeline steels. Materials Science And Technology, 19 3: 355-359.
Acicular ferrite formation during hot plate rolling for pipeline steels
Journal name
Materials Science And Technology
Publication date
2003
Sub-type
Article
Volume number
19
Issue number
3
ISSN
0267-0836
Start page
355
End page
359
Total pages
5
Place of publication
Leeds
Publisher
Maney Publishing
Abstract
The transformation of supercooled austenite in a commercial pipeline steel was investigated by means of continuous cooling transformation (CCT) and hot simulation experiments. Based on the obtained results, an improved thermomechanical control process (TMCP) was proposed, which could produce a mixed microstructure dominated by acicular ferrite. Results indicated that an increase in the cooling rate could improve the percentage of acicular ferrite in the final microstructure under the present experimental conditions. Furthermore, the acicular ferrite dominated microstructure could be obtained by a two stage controlled rolling in the austenite recrystallisation region plus the non-recrystallisation region and controlled cooling at a cooling rate of 30 K s(-1).