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Austempering
About: Austempering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2134 publications have been published within this topic receiving 23958 citations.
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TL;DR: A steel with an ultimate tensile strength of 2500 MPa, a hardness at 600-670 HV and toughness in excess of 30-40 MPa/m 1/2 is the result of exciting new developments with bainite as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Steel with an ultimate tensile strength of 2500 MPa, a hardness at 600–670 HV and toughness in excess of 30–40 MPa m 1/2 is the result of exciting new developments with bainite. The simple process route involved avoids rapid cooling so that residual stresses can in principle be avoided even in large pieces. The microstructure is generated at temperatures which are so low that the diffusion of iron is inconceivable during the course of the transformation to bainite. As a result, slender plates of ferrite, just 20–40 nm thick are generated, giving rise to the extraordinary properties.
634 citations
TL;DR: In this article, differently heat treated samples of a low alloyed TRIP steel have been investigated using electron diffraction techniques in SEM and TEM, and the results showed that the mechanical properties of these samples are most strongly influenced by the amount and distribution of carbon in the retained austenite and by the degree of recovery in bainite and martensite.
450 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, it was demonstrated that in a high-carbon steel where carbide precipitation is suppressed, bainite can be obtained by isothermal transformation at temperatures as low as 200°C.
Abstract: It is demonstrated that in a high-carbon steel where carbide precipitation is suppressed, bainite can be obtained by isothermal transformation at temperatures as low as 200°C. The time taken for nucleation at this temperature can be many days, but the transformation results in the growth of extremely thin platelets of bainite, so thin that the hardness of the resulting steel can be greater than 600 HV.
419 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the austenite to bainite phase transformation in a low alloy structural steel after simulated welding heat treatment, by means of light microscopy, electron backscatter diffraction and transmission electron microscopy.
332 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the formation process of the bainitic microstructure as well as martensite and retained austenite was revealed by conducting dilatometry, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, electron backscatter diffraction and transmission electron microscope (TEM).
294 citations
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2025 | 26 |
| 2024 | 59 |
| 2023 | 62 |
| 2022 | 104 |
| 2021 | 89 |
| 2020 | 103 |