Kinetics of the bainite transformation

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 460, Issue 2046, 2004, Pages 1707-1722

  Matsuda, Hiroshi ^a,b   Bhadeshia, Harshad K D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b JFE STEEL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bainite; Continuous cooling transformation; Isothermal transformation; Kinetics; Modelling; Steel

Indexed keywords

STEEL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COOLING; GRAIN; ISOTHERM; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE; THEORY; THROMBOCYTE; TIME;

EID: 2642532807     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2003.1225     Document Type: Article

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