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Electron Spectroscopic Investigations of the Solute Drag Like Effect in Fe-C-Mo Alloys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

E.S.K. Menon ,
W.T. Reynolds  and
A.G.Fox
E.S.K. Menon
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA24061, USA.
W.T. Reynolds
Affiliation:
Center for Materials Science, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA93943, USA.
A.G.Fox
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA24061, USA.
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The role of various alloying elements on the kinetics of austenite decomposition in steels is well documented. One of the least understood aspects is the ability of some elements like Mo to drastically reduce the kinetics of ferrite (α) growth in austenite (γ).Within specific ranges of transformation temperatures and alloy compositions, the transformation of austenite can cease entirely for extended periods of time (transformation stasis). The phenomenon is quite pronounced in Fe-C-Mo alloys and is clearly evidenced by a horizontal region in the plot of the fraction transformed vs. isothermal reaction time. Based on microstructural and kinetic evidence, the occurrence of the transformation stasis phenomenon has been ascribed to a "solute drag like effect" caused by the segregation of Mo atoms to α : γ boundaries. The proposal that interface chemistry alters the growth kinetics of ferrite is quite difficult to verify as the segregation is expected to be confined to a boundary region less than a nanometer in width.

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Segregation and Diffusion Analysis in Materials
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 3 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '97, Microscopy Society of America 55th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 31st Annual Meeting, Histochemical Society 48th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, August 10-14, 1997 , August 1997 , pp. 553 - 554
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997

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3. ESKM and AGF acknowledge the support of ONR for this research and WTR acknowledges the support of NSF for this research.Google Scholar