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Effect of Mg Content on the Microstructure and Toughness of Heat-Affected Zone of Steel Plate after High Heat Input Welding

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The effect of Mg content on the microstructure and toughness of the heat-affected zone (HAZ) of steel plates after high heat input welding was investigated by means of welding thermal simulation test and in situ observation through high-temperature laser scanning confocal microscopy. It was found that with the increase of Mg content in the steel, the former austenite grain sizes were greatly decreased and the mainly microstructural constituents in HAZ were changed from the brittle constituents of Widmanstätten ferrite, ferrite side plate and upper bainite to the ductile constituents of intragranular acicular ferrite and polygonal ferrite. The proportion of grain boundary ferrite was decreased greatly with the further addition of Mg from 27 to 99 ppm. As a result, the HAZ toughness after welding with heat input of 400 kJ cm−1 is increased with increasing Mg content in the steel plate.

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  1. School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, P.R. China

    Long-Yun Xu (Doctoral Candidate) & Wan-Lin Wang (Professor)

  2. Steelmaking Research Department, Research Institute, Baosteel Group Corporation, Shanghai, 201900, P.R. China

    Jian Yang (Professor), Rui-Zhi Wang (Researcher) & Yu-Nan Wang (Researcher)

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Xu, LY., Yang, J., Wang, RZ. et al. Effect of Mg Content on the Microstructure and Toughness of Heat-Affected Zone of Steel Plate after High Heat Input Welding. Metall Mater Trans A 47, 3354–3364 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-016-3535-2

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