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Controlling Carbide Evolution to Improve the Ductility in High Specific Young’s Modulus Steels

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A high specific Young’s modulus steel could be achieved by introducing a large fraction of kappa-carbides (κ-carbide), and its ductility was improved by efficiency divorced eutectoid transformation (DET) treatment. For this steel, carbon and aluminum contents affect not only the carbide fraction, but also the type and morphology of carbides, and consequently the mechanical properties. In this work, the alloy was designed by considering both the carbide morphology and Young’s modulus, and the carbides in the high specific Young’s modulus steels were adjusted by controlling carbon content in a suitable range for achieving a good combination of strength and ductility. The detailed microstructure evolution process during DET reaction was studied, and it was found that a higher austenitizing temperature and the cooling rate lower than 300 ℃ h−1 are suitable. The blocky carbides could be avoided by designing the carbon content in a limited content range. The microstructure-property relationship of the experimental steels was also discussed for giving an impetus to the future development of high specific Young’s modulus steels.

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51804072 and 52171108), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. N2007012), the 111 Project (No. B16009) and the Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program (No. xlyc1907128).

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  1. Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China

    Peng Chen, Fuming Yang & Xiaowu Li

  2. The State Key Laboratory of Rolling and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China

    Peng Chen, Chao Lin, Jiachen Pang & Hongliang Yi

  3. Angang Steel Company Limited Technology Centre, Anshan, 114009, China

    Xin Xu

  4. Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China

    Xiaowu Li

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Chen, P., Xu, X., Lin, C. et al. Controlling Carbide Evolution to Improve the Ductility in High Specific Young’s Modulus Steels. Acta Metall. Sin. (Engl. Lett.) 35, 1703–1711 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40195-022-01390-x

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