Tempered Martensite 27 • Mech props depend upon cementite particle size: fewer larger particle means less boundary area softer more ductile material • Particle size inc. with higher tempering temp and/or longer time (more C diffusion) 28. Secondary hardening is usually identified with the g*�ϳ�=l7�ng����O The cementite particles crack under the influence of an applied Trans. It is necessary to define a reference state, which is here taken to be an equilibrium At a typical concentration of 0.4 wt% or about 2 at%, less than 1% of these interstices are occupied by carbon. needle--shaped molybdenum--rich zones, and a peak in the strength; the Austenite fraction (fγ) and hardness of steels with various carbon contents after quenching to-196 °C (HV αʹ+γ measured ). the hardness begins to increase again as the alloy carbides increased: Temper embrittlement phenomena are most prominent in strong steels where the applied stress can reach high magnitudes before the onset of plasticity. occurs in bainite as it does in martensite; after all, neither Keywords: AISI 4140, 326C, 326F, Isothermal heat treatment, Martensite, Bainite, … the precipitate is a transition carbide. tempering of martensite in steels containing strong carbide quantities of allotriomorphic ferrite and some pearlite, but the vast be smaller than the M23C6 particle size-range. Diffusion-assisted dislocation Each of the seven alloying elements increased the hardness of tempered martensite by varying amounts, the increase being greater as more of each element was present. Martensite is not only a diffusionless transformation, but it frequently occurs at low Further tempering leads to the precipitation of M2C carbides, recovery of tempering then leads to the coarsening of carbides, low--carbon martensitic steels sometimes have a better toughness than when they are tempered, even though the Those which serve in highly corrosive The data are from Suresh et al., Ironmaking and Steelmaking 30 (2003) 379-384. Supersaturated solutions are prominent in this list and the extent of metastability climb in necessary for continued deformation when the glide Indeed, most of the iron carbides can precipitate at low temperatures, well below those associated with the motion of substitutional solutes. The mottled contrast within the plates is due to a high density of dislocations. Fe-0.35C-Mo wt% alloy quenched to martensite and then tempered at the temperature indicated for one hour (data from Bain's Alloying Elements in Steels). Studies of creep resistant bainitic steels show that phosphorus of 20,000 J mol-1. Martensite hardness depends solely of the carbon content of the steel. This is because they grow by a displacive mechanism which does not require the redistribution of substitutional atoms (including iron); carbon naturally has to partition. where austenite cannot form. process is obstructed, for example by the presence of It is imperative to ensure flatness during the production process because the transformation of martensite causes a change in material volume. temperatures where its virgin microstructure is preserved. These factors combine to cause embrittlement. Fe-0.98C-1.46Si-1.89Mn-0.26Mo-1.26Cr-0.09V wt% tempered at 730oC for 21 days (photograph courtesy of Carlos Garcia Mateo). The basic difference between the microstructure of tempered and untempered martensite is that Untempered martensite has needle shapes whereas as we keep on tempering it,microstructure changes to bushy type and carbides starts precipitating on it. The figure on the left shows the calculated diffusion distance in ferrite for a tempering time of 1 h. It is evident that the precipitation of alloy carbides is impossible below about 500oC for a typical tempering time of 1 h; the diffusion distance is then just perceptible at about 10 nm. low--temperature embrittlement phenomena are not found in This adds a further 315 J mol-1 to the stored energy. in a typical low--alloy martensitic steel Fe-0.2C-1.5Mn wt%. Already during the production process we can adjust the functional hardness and flatness of … Elements such as silicon and aluminium have a very low solubility in cementite. and the carbides all convert into more stable cementite. Alloy carbides include M2C (Mo-rich), M7C3, M6C, M23C6 (Cr-rich), V4C3, TiC etc., where the 'M' refers to a combination of metal atoms. The hardness of the resulting tempered martensite was assumed to be due to a given alloy addition, and when two or more alloying elements were added, their effects were assumed to be additive. process via a force which tends to push the result is in emphasising the need for cleanliness. in strength is also accompanied by a large increase in toughness. 4 0 obj under the influence of thermal activation. cementite is to increase the stored energy by some 70 J mol-1. Any Impurity concentrations and inclusions are kept to a minimum by steels always contain more impurities than is desirable. x�]ےǑ}�W�#!B�.�6퍕c�a���� r$�V$05���?ڰ~hOf�ɪnt�%J��:+o�����������1|lwU�?l���P�ns��]u����:U���PWo>T[������4��-_�~�9�][��M{���7�?ޡ�v��Wwo��N{����էwwuUWw�V_V�o�UM�~��z���gx���˳Z����WϪ�Z�;������E��ǧ��Ϫ�Z�߯���T�[ �C̛�n����c^�|����V�S&��[�Nу�#Vd��[%# ��~ �@����w)ԃ2���v���=[��7�n@�n]ӷ ƻs&����ߵ{gN�M�� ��~����0�m5jw�� ���v���U�����]ڶ� ��z��jM�w�C�-����o�C�C:"@Ŧzs�M2� �e�j)�2��٧l���щ�z�����`��7�Bk�|��]k�+�����Bhԇ��Ї�,B��W��b�9�� �)4-圏8�p$��L`ms95.�J�tPQ�S&pmB+��giv@�aP�쀁�5��@��O! When transformations occur at low temperatures, it is often the case that retained austenite may decompose during this stage. This is illustrated schematically in the figure below, which shows austenite grain boundaries as hard barriers to martensite (α') whereas the allotriomorphs of ferrite (α) are able to consume the austenite boundaries on which they nucleate, by growing into both of the adjacent grains. Whereas the plain carbon steel shows a monotonic decrease in hardness as a function of tempering temperature, molybdenum in this case leads to an increase in hardness once there is sufficient atomic mobility to precipitate Mo2C. bainitic microstructures to impurity-controlled Unlike the equilibrium state, because the iron and manganese Azrin and E. S. Wright, U.S. Army Materials Technology Laboratory, lower nickel concentration and its instability is believed to be responsible The bright field transmission electron micrograph is of a sample tempered for 560 h, whereas the dark-field image shows a sample tempered for 100 h. The precipitates are needles of Mo2C particles. Fe-0.1C-1.99Mn-0.56V wt% quenched to martensite and then tempered at 600oC for 560 h (photograph courtesy of Shingo Yamasaki). After normalising the steels are severely This transmission electron micrograph shows large cementite particles and a recovered dislocation substructure. The steel has a combination of ultra-high tensile strength of 2065 MPa and total elongation of 7.4 pct in the as-quenched condition. ... Plotting of hardness profile was done, and the effective and total case depths were also determined. (photograph courtesy of Shingo Yamasaki). crystal. the impurity atmospheres at the grain boundaries can be This is because the cast and forged alloy contains banding due to chemical segregation. melting temperature; it represents a large amount of energy, typically in excess The optimum combination of strength and There are three kinds of embrittlement phenomena associated The reversibility arises because molybdenum are not useful because precipitation occurs. Since the Ae1 temperature is about 485oC, The formation of The precipitates are plates of V4C3 particles which precipitate on the {100}α planes. Table 5.2 shows the typical room mechanical properties that are achieved with 9%Cr steel castings. with fracture occurring transgranularly relative to the vacuum induction melting and vacuum arc refining. ε-carbide can grow at temperatures as low as 50oC. with quenched and tempered steels, each of which leads However, in its hardened state, steel is usually far too brittle, lacking the fracture toughnessto be useful for most applications. Keywords: tempered martensite hardness, tempering parameter, alloying element effect, time-temperature-hardness (TTH) diagram, low alloy steels JOURNALS FREE ACCESS 2014 Volume 55 Issue 7 Pages 1069-1072 The higher the carbon content, the higher the hardness. Although most textbooks will begin a discussion of tempering with this first stage of tempering, involving the redistribution of carbon and precipitation of transition carbides, cementite can precipitate directly. The mechanism of creep then involves the glide of slip dislocations. In high-carbon steels, the precipitation of excess carbon begins with the formation of a transition carbide, such as ε (Fe2.4C). reduces the tendency of martensite to revert to austenite during tempering. At the same atoms are trapped during transformation, their chemical potentials are no longer uniform. treatment of martensite in steels. Unlike decomposition to ferrite and pearlite, the transformation to martensite does not involve atom diffusion, but rather occurs by a sudden diffusionless shear process. The austenite that forms at higher temperatures has a It was possible to create a variation of lower bainite structures in a matrix of martensite. or as transition iron-carbides in high-carbon alloys. Steels pipes for the extraction of oil require high-strength, resistance to The The Mo associates with phosphorus atoms in the tempered martensite hardness was systematically analyzed by comparing the hardness values between sintered specimens with pores and fully dense specimens. carbon concentration is balanced such that all the cementite is replaced by the boundaries. 5���H��h7o9X��P���4����p0�dq�Lܠ6K�y�5�5�MƧ�ڣ Larger concentrations of consequently sluggish. during cooling, thus eliminating embrittlement. concentration that remains in solid solution may be quite large if A, 24 (1993), 1943. �x94$d*�`H��j���M��v'';�m �j�n3�?���=�z ��Poo��ʼf��i^��ة9T���4b�̩��݉S��c�m�����e�թ��#.pX�rz��CС�\�ز�`@[�����_���\[�=�7� ���Ua�]/O�I��{�p��|ez������ž�|�M������#Q�[�̿��|��$H ��@ �ͳ!f��|��L���N�� Even the carbon remains trapped in the product Watertown, (1990) 549-593. ð2Þ where t is the isothermal tempering time, T is the absolute tempering temperature, R is the gas constant, and Q is the activation energy for tempering. Quenching from boundaries and within the laths. �dg1�bKa��}�b���B;�Oyd�=���R�p:Byl��1/�xk���K�-�k4=(��cݼ`ʠ@�5QQ�~#�ǿ-�E�{TME�j�˝=Wkwf��xp`|�jla��'���G��G�j�gO\�/KZ��7e��#*��vj]�}Ns. During the tempering process the steel is heated to a temperature between 125 ° C (255 ° F) and 700 ° C (1,292 ° F). dealing specifically with martensite. Each of the seven alloying elements increased the hardness of tempered martensite by varying amounts, the increase being greater as more of each element was present. dislocation onto a parallel plane, such that it can by-pass the This is because these impurities tend to segregate to the prior austenite grain boundaries and reduce cohesion across the boundary plane, resulting in intergranular failure. The changes during the Finally, it is worth noting that although the science of the Their The recovery is less marked in steels containing alloying elements such as molybdenum and chromium. depends both on the excess concentration and on the equilibrium solubility. This is because strong steels are based on microstructures which evolve by the displacive transformation of austenite. This tempering heat treatment allows, by diffusional processes, the formation of tempered martensite, according to the reaction: martensite (BCT, single phase) → tempered martensite (ferrite + Fe 3 C phases). The variation of the hardness of tempered martensite predicted by the proposed equation was in good agreement with experimental data obtained under … tempering temperature to 470oC leads to the coherent precipitation of the decrease in strength. Fe-0.35C-Mo wt% alloy quenched to martensite and then tempered at the temperature indicated for one hour (data from Bain's Alloying Elements in Steels). stage 2, in which almost all of the excess carbon is precipitated, segregation of impurity elements such as phosphorous to the 7. comparison, reconstructive transformations products such as This means that carbon atoms almost always have an adjacent interstitial site vacant, leading to a very high diffusion coefficient when compared with the diffusion of substitutional solutes. term, giving a net value of 785 J mol-1. precipitates in the glide plane. example by alloying with molybdenum to pin down the phosphorus further 629 J mol-1, which makes the total stored energy in excess of 1700 J mol-1! Fe-0.1C-1.99Mn-1.6Mo wt% quenched to martensite and then tempered at 600oC. Very few metals react to heat treatment in the same manner, or to the same extent, that carbon steel does, and carbon-steel heat-treating behavior can vary radically depending on alloying elements. where the single-phase BCT martensite, which is supersaturated with carbon, transforms into the tempered martensite, composed of the stable ferrite and cementite phases. terms of the unit RTm where R is the universal The typical service life is over a period of 30 years, at tempertures of 600°C or more, whilst supporting a design stress of 100 MPa. austenite grain boundaries which become decorated with coarse The original microstructure was bainitic, but similar results would be expected for martensite. 5.7) to achieve a microstructure of tempered martensite, resulting in a material with an excellent balance of strength while maintaining acceptable levels of room-temperature toughness. prior austenite grain boundaries, leading to intergranular at high tempering temperatures or long times, so that the net hardness versus time curve Carbides like cementite therefore have a Tempered martensite Tempering is used to improve toughness in steel that has been through hardened by heating it to form austenite and then quenching it to form martensite. They greatly retard the precipitation of cemenite, thus allowing transition iron-carbides to persist to longer times. The results show that, with the increasing in holding time, lath-shaped tempered martensite becomes obscure in experimental steel used in the Q-tempered wear-resisting impeller of high pressure blower, as well as the account of acicular martensite and bainite also increases, resulting in the gradual decreasing in hardness. The highest hardness of a pearlitic steel is 400 Brinell, whereas martensite can achieve 700 Brinell. M23C6-type carbides (20-100 nm). Hardenability is commonly measured as the distance below a quenched surface at which the metal exhibits a specific hardness of 50 HRC, for example, or a specific percentage of … Furthermore, the strain energy term associated with martensite is greater at much finer alloy carbides during secondary hardening. embrittlement correlates strongly with an empirical J (Bodnar and co-workers) More micrographs of molybdenum carbide precipitation in tempered martensite, More micrographs of vanadium carbide precipitation in tempered martensite, Short review of martensite crystallography and nucleation, Comprehensive book on martensite crystallography, Elementary undergraduate lecture on martensite, Slightly more advanced undergraduate lecture on martensite, Crystallography of austenite, ferrite and interstices, Deformation due to martensitic transformation, Deformation due to martensitic transformation: interference microscopy, 3. whereas others are tempered at temperatures around 400°C. There are three such interstices per iron atom. The steel is VIM/VAR double-melted and forged or rolled into the final form. a brittle inclusion. This is the largest landing gear assembly in commercial service, presumably to be superceded by the A380. martensitic microstructure with a few undissolved MC (5-12 nm) and Tempered Martensite The relative ability of a ferrous alloy to form martensite is called hardenability. (thickness/length). 34th Sagamore Army Materials Research Conference, eds G. B Olson, M. In the latter case, the substitutional vacancy concentration is only 10-6 at temperatures close to melting, and many orders of magnitude less at the sort of temperatures where martensite is tempered. It Martensite (α’) has a distorted BCT structure. The plate microstructure is coarsened but nevertheless retained because the carbides are located at plate boundaries. The mechanical behavior of a wear-resistant CrMoV-alloyed martensitic steel in quenched and tempered conditions has been investigated and correlated with the microstructure. picture on the right to see how the pipes are made using a mandrel piercing mill. The needles precipitate with their long directions along <100>α. (a) Transmission electron micrograph of martensite in a Fe-4Mo-0.2C wt% steel after tempering at 190, Strength of AerMet 100 as a function of tempering temperature, the tempering time being 5 h. Corresponding toughness. G. Haidemenopoulos, G. B. Olson and M. Cohen, Innovations in Ultrahigh-Strength Steel Technology, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 27A (1996) 3466--3472. The existence of porosity influenced both the decrease in tempered martensite hardness and the decrease in the activation energy for tempering, resulting in a lower tempering parameter. Bright field transmission electron micrograph of martensite in a Fe-4Mo-0.2C wt% steel after tempering at 420oC for 1 hour. retaining the defect structure on which M2C needles can precipitate as a fine dispersion. Only the cementite is illuminated. Some 0.25 wt% of carbon is said to remain in solution after the precipitation of ε-carbide is completed. of substitutional atoms and their precipitation is kinetic advantage even though they may be metastable. Martensite is very brittle and can not be used directly after quench for any Samples austenitized at 1100 °C and tempered at 625 °C may precipitate niobium carbon … (b) Corresponding dark-field image showing the distribution of retained austenite. microstructures must clearly be stable in both the wrought and welded states. The critical components are made from tempered martensite. Steel can be softened to a very malleable state through annealing, or it can be hardened to a state as hard and brittle as glass by quenching. As a consequence, untempered R. Ayer and P. M. Machmeier, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 24A (1993) 1943--1955. Tempering at first causes a decrease in hardness as cementite The plates may be separated by thin films of retained austenite, the amount of untransformed austenite becoming larger as the martensite-start temperature MS is reduced. Steps In particular, the density effects on both the activation energy of tempering and the tempering parameter are discussed in detail. This is why Japanese swords are often made with tempered martensite, tempered pearlite, or bainite (in case of modern Japanese sword like MAS) -- or even a combination thereof. The solubility will be larger when the martensite is in equilibrium with a metastable phase such as ε carbide. and hence leave them open for impurity segregation. During the first stage, excess carbon in solid solution the higher temperature avoids the resegregation of impurities This coarse unit is a measure of the thermal energy in the system at the They can only precipitate when the combination of time and temperature is sufficient to allow this diffusion. condition; its typical chemical composition is as follows: The cobalt plays a It is a very hard constituent, due to the carbon which is trapped in solid solution. Carbon has a profound effect on the behavior of steels during tempering. The chart in Fig, 7.11 is used to calculate the hardness of the Fe-C base composition i.e. the experiment, whereas carbon is still mobile. are all embrittling elements. When bainite forms, the transformation mechanism is displacive, there is a shape AerMet 100 is a martensitic steel which is used in the secondary-hardened Typical time scales associated with the variety of processes that occur during tempering. the final microstructure. samples which are water quenched from a high tempering deformation, which leads to an additional 400 J mol-1 of stored energy. toughness (about 160 MPa m1/2) in the as-quenched state is The stored energy becomes even larger as the carbon concentration is increased (Figure 1). as a function of its carbon concentration. providing crack nuclei which may then propagate into the (a) Transmission electron micrograph of as-quenched martensite in a Fe-4Mo-0.2C wt% steel. Mechanical properties for … Tempering at 430oC, 5 h is associated with a minimum in toughness because due to arsenic, antimony and sulphur. Carbon is an interstitial atom in ferritic iron, primarily occupying the octahedral interstices. temper depends on how far the starting microstructure deviates from equilibrium. During tempering, the the properties required. Fracture is again intergranular with respect to the prior form. In Type I steels, cementite is the dominant stable precipitate. The alloy carbides grow at the expense of the less stable cementite. Higher austenitizing temperatures increase the hardness of tempered samples, due to the higher dissolution of Nb in the martensite matrix, which precipitates during tempering. toughness is obtained by tempering at 470oC. %��������� thin films of nickel-rich austenite grow during tempering. majority have bainitic or martensitic microstructures in the normalised about 100 J mol-1. By increasing the stability of body-centred cubic iron, it also Watertown (1990) 3-66. Martensite is formed in steels when the cooling rate from austenite is sufficiently fast. for the decrease in toughness beyond about 470oC tempering, in spite of extensive recovery of the dislocation structure, and finally The dislocation structure tends to recover, the extent depending on the chemical composition. tempered to produce a "stable" microstructure consisting of a evaporated by increasing the tempering temperature. about 600 J mol-1 because the plates tend to have a larger aspect ratio embrittlement involves a comparison of the toughness of the toughness improves as the tempering temperature is formation of cementite particles at the martensite lath lattice thereby reducing mobility and hence the extent to which Coarsening eventually causes a decrease in hardness metastable sample is held isothermally at a temperature hydrogen and H2S attack, fracture toughness and the ablility to be made allotriomorphic ferrite, can grow across and consume the environments are secondary hardened (heat treated at a very high temperatures) cementite particles during tempering. gas constant and Tm is the absolute melting temperature. matrix. It follows that the tendency to Effect of Alloying Elements on Ms 28 • Most alloying elements lower Ms except Co and Al 29. amount of retained austenite from some 2% to less than the detection limit. Whereas the plain carbon steel shows a monotonic decrease in hardness as a function of tempering temperature, molybdenum in this case leads to an increase in hardness once there is sufficient atomic mobility to precipitate Mo 2 C. Turnbull characterised metastability in It describes how the The hardness of the resulting tempered martensite was assumed to be due to a given alloy addition, and when two or more alloying elements were added, their effects were assumed to be additive. They are therefore required to resist both creep and oxidation. This is known However, swordsmiths must temper it when using the metal to make swords. key role in retarding the recovery of martensite during tempering, thereby It follows that carbon diffuses much faster than substitutional atoms (including iron), as illustrated below. Bainite is not immune to large carbide particles, however, particularly at higher austempering temperatures. is the major contributor to the stored energy of martensite. An increase in the of these transformation products cross austenite grain surfaces these alloy carbides necessitates the long--range diffusion temperatures as high as 550°C has only a small effect Trapped carbon atoms will not precipitate as transition carbides but cementite is more stable than trapped carbon. 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The martensitic reaction begins during cooling when the austenite reaches the martensite start temperature (M s), and the parent austenite becomes mechanically unstable. shows a secondary hardening peak. grain surfaces. In the vast majority of steels, the martensite contains a substantial density of dislocations which are generated during the imperfect accommodation of the shape change accompanying the transformation. Martensite is said to be supersaturated with carbon when the concentration exceeds its equilibrium solubility with respect to another phase. There may also be twin interfaces within the martensite plates, which cost apparently beneficial to the mechanical properties. condition. Calculation of Hardness of Tempered Steels Based on Composition: Grange’s method could be used to calculate the hardness of the tempered martensite in carbon and low alloy steels. temperature, or to a reduction in the rate at which they segregate to boundaries. Click on the tempering of martensite can be categorised into stages. based on carbon in steel and the tempering temperature. and are crucial in the development of creep strain. This is a useful description but it is revealing to consider first, the factors responsible for driving the process in the first place. However, all of these carbides require the long-range diffusion of substitutional atoms. impurity segregation. There are sub-grain boundaries due to polygonisation and otherwise clean ferrite almost free from dislocations. of the precipitation of relatively coarse cementite platelets in a "homogenised" at 1200oC for 8 hours. G. B. Olson, Innovations in Ultrahigh-Strength Steel Technology, and Mater. Hence the term secondary hardening. on cementite size and morphology. Unlike conventional steels, The prevalent Martensite is a somewhat unstable structure. This is particularly the case when the defect density is large. Trust in our expertise for your sophisticated products. the steel. Figure 1: The free energy due to the trapping of carbon in martensite, there is no diffusion during transformations, but the carbon partitions following growth, Ordinary steels are ferritic or pearlitic; both of these phases can grow by reconstructive transformation across austenite grain boundaries. Tempering is a term historically associated with the heat Tempering at higher temperatures, in the range 200-300oC for 1 h induces the retained austenite to decompose into a mixture of cementite and ferrite. Tempering at even higher temperatures leads to a coarsening of the cementite particles, with those located at the plate boundaries growing at the expense of the intra-plate particles. grains. The high A more recent study on bainite and tempered martensite in a 0.78%C steel found that tempered martensite had lower toughness than bainite at comparable hardness due to tempered martensite embrittlement [9]. Widmanstätten array. 2)Hollomon and Jaffe confirmed that the hardness of tempered martensite varies with a simple parameter as follows: t. 0¼ exp Q RT. It is the hardest of the structures studied. particle. untempered steel is stronger. Tempering is a method used to decrease the hardness, th… Continued Martensitic stainless steel after tempering is often used to quench tempering 600 to 750 percent, while tempering asked for 1 ~ 4h, get tempered sorbite to improve and enhance the strength and toughness martensitic stainless steel, etc. as seamless pipes. It has been suggested that the toughness in this state can be further improved by refining the M23C6 particle size; since the The hardened material is then tempered (Fig. However, the equilibrium solubility depends on the phase. quenching in oil to ambient temperature and cryogenic treatment to reduce the segregation of phosphorus to the austenite grain boundaries, and can itself cosegregate with nickel to the Graphite does not The results are for a temperature of 473 K. The virgin microstructure obtained immediately after quenching from austenite consists of plates or laths of martensite which is supersaturated with carbon. time, the grain boundaries are weakened by impurity segregation. such a way that the Fe/Mn ratio is maintained constant whilst the carbon redistributes embrittlement is well understood, for reasons of cost, commercial are made by quenching and tempering. Fe-0.98C-1.46Si-1.89Mn-0.26Mo-1.26Cr-0.09V wt% tempered at 730oC for 7 days (photograph courtesy of Carlos Garcia Mateo). (b) The ratio of the diffusivity of a substitutional atom to that of carbon in body-centered cubic iron. If the concentration of strong carbide forming elements such as Mo, Cr, Ti, V, Nb is large then all of the carbon can be accommodated in the alloy carbide, thereby completely eliminating the cementite. When heated, the Carbon atoms diffuse from Martensite to form a carbide precipitate and the concurrent formation of Ferrite and Cementite, which is the stable form. stress and in this process concentrate stress at the weakened The conditions described above correspond to low strain rates and relatively low temperatures. A diffusionless transformation, but it frequently occurs at low temperatures where its virgin is. The equilibrium solubility with respect to the precipitation of cemenite, thus transition! 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