The ultra-fine-grained ferrite(UFGF) with the size of less than 1 μm is often difficult to be obtained for low-alloyed steel in practical production processing.In this study,considering the rod and wire production pr...The ultra-fine-grained ferrite(UFGF) with the size of less than 1 μm is often difficult to be obtained for low-alloyed steel in practical production processing.In this study,considering the rod and wire production process,a new method for preparing the UFGF with submicron scale is proposed by warm deformation of six passes with total strain of 2.6,followed by the cooling process in Gleeble-3500 thermo-mechanical simulator.The results show that the UFGF with an average size of 0.64 μm could be obtained via the phase transformation from austenite grains with an average size of 3.4 μm,which are achieved by the deformation-induced reversal austenization during the high strain rate warm deformation.The main driving force for the reversal transformation is the stress.And the interval between the passes also plays an important role in the reversal austenization.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51574107, 51501056, 51975593)the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (Grant Nos. E2015209243, E2017209048)+1 种基金the Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2019-KF-25-01)the Research Funds from Department of Education of Hebei Province (Grant Nos. QN2019051, ZD 2019064).
文摘The ultra-fine-grained ferrite(UFGF) with the size of less than 1 μm is often difficult to be obtained for low-alloyed steel in practical production processing.In this study,considering the rod and wire production process,a new method for preparing the UFGF with submicron scale is proposed by warm deformation of six passes with total strain of 2.6,followed by the cooling process in Gleeble-3500 thermo-mechanical simulator.The results show that the UFGF with an average size of 0.64 μm could be obtained via the phase transformation from austenite grains with an average size of 3.4 μm,which are achieved by the deformation-induced reversal austenization during the high strain rate warm deformation.The main driving force for the reversal transformation is the stress.And the interval between the passes also plays an important role in the reversal austenization.