The effect of silicon, vanadium and nitrogen on the microstructure and hardness of air cooled medium carbon low alloy steels

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 405-412

  Ollilainen, V ^a   Kasprzak, W ^b   Holappa, L ^c  

^a Imatra Steel Oy Ab   (Finland)

^b SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Air cooling; Hardness; HSLA steels; Medium carbon steels; Microhardness; Nitrogen alloying; Precipitation strengthening; Prior austenite grain size; Proeutectoid ferrite; Silicon alloying; Titanium alloying; Vanadium alloying

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; GRAIN GROWTH; MICROHARDNESS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SILICON ALLOYS; STEEL HEAT TREATMENT; TITANIUM ALLOYS; VANADIUM ALLOYS; VOLUME FRACTION;

AIR COOLING;

CARBON STEEL;

EID: 0037457274     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-0136(02)01131-7     Document Type: Article

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