Inter-critical heat treatment of a low-alloy steel

✍ Scribed by S. Jana

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 794 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0924-0136
• DOI: 10.1016/0924-0136(94)90464-2

✦ Synopsis

Inter-critical heat treatment of low-alloy steels by producing a strong second phase in a ferrite matrix can provide attractive mechanical properties. In the present investigation, a low-alloy chrome-moly steel was subjected to different cooling rates after soaks at various inter-critical temperatures and thereafter its mechanical properties were evaluated and its microstructures documented. It was observed that the subject steel was reasonably responsive to such heat treatment in that a wide range of mechanical properties could be produced and a variety of two-phase distributions could be achieved.