PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kučerová, Ludmila
AU  - Bystrianský, Martin
AU  - Jeníček, Štěpán
TI  - Thermo-mechanical Treatment of 0.4C-0.6Mn-2Si Steel with Various Soaking and Annealing Hold Temperatures
DP  - 2019 Feb 1
TA  - Manufacturing Technology Journal
PG  - 95--100
VI  - 19
IP  - 1
AID - 10.21062/ujep/250.2019/a/1213-2489/MT/19/1/95
IS  - 12132489
AB  - Middle carbon low alloyed steel 0.4C-0.6Mn-2Si was subjected to thermo-mechanical treatment typical for TRIP (transformation induced plasticity steels). The processing consisted from soaking at the temperatures of 850-1000 °C and cooling at 30 °C/s to various annealing holds in bainite transformation temperature interval of 350-500 °C. During the cooling from the soaking temperature, two compressive deformations were carried out, the second one always at 720 °C. Resulting microstructures were analysed using light and scanning electron microscopy. X-ray diffraction phase analysis was carried out to establish volume fraction of retained austenite and mechanical properties were measured by tensile test. Tensile strengths in the region of 847-963 MPa were obtained and very good total elongations of 30-40% were achieved at the same time. Multiphase microstructures were obtained with various amounts of ferrite, bainite, retained austenite and pearlite.