Abstract
This paper concerns acoustic emission (AE) measurements during continuous cooling of steel C45 using a Gleeble 1500 thermomechanical simulator. After austenising at a certain temperature, the studied specimen was cooled down and the root mean square (RMS) value of the continuous AE signal was measured. During cooling two distinct peaks in the RMS data were observed at temperatures of 200-300°C and 500-600°C, which have been attributed to martensite and bainite formation respectively. The observed bainite peak strongly indicated that the mechanism of bainite growth is displacive. The AE monitoring of bainite and martensite formation was supported by dilatation measurements, which were performed simultaneously. The effect of the austenite grain size on the evolution of the bainitic and martensitic transformation was studied by varying the austenising temperature Ta. It was found that upon lowering Ta, i.e. with decreasing austenite grain size, the bainite peak increases while the martensite peak decreases.
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