Quench and Bainite (Q&B) Thermal Cycle as an Alternative to Standard Quench and Partitioning (Q&P) Annealing to Produce AHSS

Autor: Arlazarov, Artem, Pipard, Jean Marc, Kabou, Nora, Targy, Pierre, Thénot, Marc Olivier
Zdroj: Materials Science Forum; November 2023, Vol. 1105 Issue: 1 p185-190, 6p
Abstrakt: In this work a new kind of thermal treatment, called Quenching and Bainite (Q&B), was proposed and studied. A rather standard Fe-C-Mn-Si composition was used for this study. Annealing trials were performed using a combination of salt pots on relatively big samples allowing to perform the standard tensile and hole expansion tests. The obtained results were compared with the properties obtained using more known Q&P annealing. Generated microstructures were also compared. Characterization was done using optical and Scanning Electron Microscopy as well as magnetization saturation method for measuring retained austenite fractions. The Q&B heat treatment provides an alternative way to obtain 3G AHSS with promising strength-ductility-formability compromise.
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