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Phase transitions

Modeling of the $\gamma\to\alpha$ transformation in steels

A. A. Vasil'ev, D. F. Sokolov, N. G. Kolbasnikov, S. F. Sokolov

St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

Abstract: A mathematical physically based model of the decomposition of undercooled austenite ($\gamma$-phase) with the formation of ferrite ($\alpha$-phase) and pearlite has been developed. The model differs from the currently existing analogs by a new approach to the inclusion of the effect of complex alloying of steels on the nucleation rate of ferrite grains and on the mobility of the $\alpha/\gamma$-phase boundary. In the model, the effect of alloying of steels with substitutional elements on the diffusion coefficient of carbon in the bulk of austenite is taken into account. The results of the modeling of the kinetics of austenite decomposition and the calculation of the final ferrite grain size are in good quantitative agreement with the experimental data obtained for a set of steels with a wide range of chemical compositions.

Received: 22.12.2011

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2012, 54:8, 1669–1680

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