Abstract
In order to evaluate the potential application advantage for development of sub-rapid cooling strip casting of high-carbon martensitic stainless steels, the effects of cooling rate on the solidification microstructure, solute element segregation, and primary carbide precipitation in high-carbon martensitic stainless steels were investigated using an association of high-temperature confocal laser scanning microscopy (HT-CLSM), optical microscopy (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electro-probe microanalysis (EPMA). As a result, the microstructure becomes more refined and the secondary dendrite arm spacing (SDAS) decreases greatly by 51 μm from 65.9 μm as the increase of cooling rate from 30 to 6000 °C·min−1. The equation of SDAS versus cooling rate was formulated as λ2 = 191.62·RC−0.317. Solute elements are enriched in the inter-dendritic region, leading to the precipitation of primary carbides. The elemental segregation ratio reduces by more than 20 % for all elements, meanwhile, the size of primary carbides decreases significantly and the mean area fraction of the primary carbides decreases from 4.77 % to 0.82 % with increase of cooling rate from 30 to 6000 °C·min−1. Moreover, the reticulated carbides gradually become less continuous. Despite the type of carbide is not sensitive to the cooling rate, the content of Cr and Fe in the primary carbide is sensitive to cooling rate. Compared to the reported methods, sub-rapid cooling of strip casting shows great advantage in control of primary carbides of high-carbon martensitic stainless steels.
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