Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 1991, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (1): 1-7.

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CHARACTER OF CARBON-DEPLETED REGIONS IN UNDERCOOLED AUSTENITE AND THERMODYANMICS OF BAINITIC TRANSFORMATION

YANG Quanmin KANG Mokuang Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi'an,China YANG Quanmin,Dept.of Material Science and Engineering,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310027,China   

  • Received:1991-02-25 Revised:1991-02-25 Online:1991-02-25 Published:2009-10-10

Abstract: The chemical driving forces for the phase transformation from austenite in three different car- bon-depleted regions into ferrite with the identical composition have been derived respectively. The starting temperature of bainitic transformation,B_s,has also been calculated according to the shearing mechanism of bainitic transformation in carbon-depleted regions of austenite. The maximum driving forces for banitic transformation at B_s in both 3% Cr and the CrMo steels were obtained.It was shown that the proposed shearing mechanism of the bainitic trans- formation is thermodynamically possible.

Key words: bainitic, transformation, thermodynamics