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Effect of Annealing Treatments on the Microstructure and Texture Development in API 5L X60 Microalloyed Pipeline Steel

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Effect of annealing treatments at 600, 800, 1000 and 1200 °C on the microstructure, texture, grain boundary characteristic and recrystallization fraction of Nb-microalloyed X60 steel is evaluated by using x-ray diffraction and EBSD techniques. The results indicate that bimodal as-received microstructure is changed to a homogeneous equiaxed grain structure above annealing at 1000 °C. Macro-texture investigations depict that increasing annealing temperature results in considerable variation of texture intensity, especially at 1200 °C. Maximum intensity corresponds to {001}〈310〉, Goss, copper texture components as well as near γ-fiber at 1200 °C. Recrystallization analysis shows that volume fraction of recrystallization noticeably is increased by annealing temperature at 1200 °C. Recrystallized grains are mainly oriented along γ-fiber, especially close to {111}〈112〉 texture component. Moreover, coincidence site lattice (CSL) analysis shows that the effect of annealing temperature on the volume fraction of Σ3 boundary is negligible.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Oxin steel company for support of this project. We also sincerely thank for the support received from Professor Jerzy Szpunar, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

    R. Joodaki, S. R. Alavi Zaree, Kh. Gheisari & M. Eskandari

  2. Steel Research Center, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

    S. R. Alavi Zaree, Kh. Gheisari & M. Eskandari

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Joodaki, R., Alavi Zaree, S.R., Gheisari, K. et al. Effect of Annealing Treatments on the Microstructure and Texture Development in API 5L X60 Microalloyed Pipeline Steel. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 26, 2003–2013 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-017-2673-z

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