Abstract
ABSTRACTIn the present study, the experimental steel containing nanoparticles was manufactured and then cooled to room temperature under different cooling rates. The differences on the inclusion characteristics and microstructure morphologies between the original steel and experimental steel were compared. The results revealed that the majority of reaction products in the experimental steel were Al2O3–MgO-bearing hybrid inclusions. These inclusions under brine quenching, and water quenching had large potential for inducing intra-granular acicular ferrites (IAF). Hence the microstructure in the experimental steel mainly consisted of fine IAF. For the original steel, SiO2–MnO–MnS-based inclusions could hardly induce IAF, and the microstructure consisted of relatively larger intra-granular banded ferrites, and intra-granular polygonal ferrites. The differences on microstructure morphologies between the two steels had a correlation with the inclusion composition, and size. These were the primary factors to determine whether a particular type of inclusion could induce IAF effectively or not.
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