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An experimental investigation of the austenitization under continuous heating of
various microstructures of 8 industrial steel grades with wide range of chemical compositions
was carried out. A quantitative mathematical model describing the austenitization kinetics of
the steels with complex microstructure and predicting austenite grain size in dependence on
the chemical composition, volume fractions of structural components (ferrite, pearlite, bainite,
martensite), ferrite grain size and heating rate, was developed. Values of the model empirical
parameters were defined basing on the obtained data on kinetics of austenitization, as well as
on the measured final austenite grain size. All experiments were performed using the Pocket
Jaw unit of the Gleeble 3800 complex. The kinetics of austenitization and the austenite grain
size predicted by the developed model are in good agreement with experimental data.
Keywords: steels, austenitization kinetics, continuous heating, mathematical modeling |
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