Abstract
The austenite grain growth of a microalloyed steel was investigated via annealing experiments and phase-field simulations using the phase-field code Micress. The technique described in a previous work was enhanced and applied to an Nb, Ti microalloyed linepipe steel for the case of isothermal heat treatment between 1 050 and 1 200 °C. The input parameters for the phase-field simulations were deduced from physical models based on the results of isothermal holding experiments. A further improvement was the use of the software package MatCalc to simulate at a lower scale the coarsening of the pinning particles. The results of these simulations showed good agreement with the experimental results.
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