Abstract
In the present study, acicular ferrite nucleation and growth were investigated from a crystallographic point of view in API5L-X65 steel weld metals. It was observed that acicular ferrite was nucleated on inclusions in weld metal. The titanium-enriched layer around inclusions was characterised as the TiO phase by selected area diffraction patterns. A scanning electron microscope equipped with an electron backscatter diffraction technique was applied to investigate the crystallographic orientation relationship. The results showed that acicular ferrite lathes had a Baker–Nutting orientation relationship with the TiO layer on the inclusion surface in the nucleation of acicular ferrite. However, it is confirmed that the growth of acicular ferrite lathes depends on the deviation from the Kurdjumov–Sachs relationship between lathes and primary austenite.
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