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The warm compression tests were performed on the eutectoid steel to investigate the evolution of cementite morphology. Several processing parameters, such as temperature, strain rate and reduction, were changed to analyze the effect of each parameter on spheroidization of cementite. The results showed that the warm compression promoted the fragmentize and the spheroidization of lamellar cementites. When the specimen was compressed with reduction of 50% at 700 °C and in the strain rate of 0. 01 s−1, the excellent spheroidized cementite was obtained. The mechanism of fragmentation and spheroidization of lamellar cementites during compression was discussed by using transmission electron microscope. The formation of spheroidized cementite was related to the time of compression process. The fragmentize of lamellar cementites was due to the extension of sub-grain boundary in the cementite. The spheroidization of cementite depended on the diffusion of carbon atoms at the tip of bended and breakup cementite.
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Wu, T., Wang, Mz., Gao, Yw. et al. Effects of Plastic Warm Deformation on Cementite Spheroidization of a Eutectoid Steel. J. Iron Steel Res. Int. 19, 60–66 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1006-706X(12)60140-X
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