Abstract

The morphology and growth kinetics of discontinuous precipitation (DP) and discontinuous dissolution (DD) in an Fe-8.5Al-27Mn-1.0Si-0.92C alloy are investigated. The results indicate that the solid-solution-treated austenite phase decomposes into lamellar DP after aging at temperatures ranging from 900 to 1050 K. After the specimens of a preaged DP structure go through further aging at temperatures ranging from 1118 to 1173 K, the lamellar DP falls into dissolution because of the DD reaction. The lamellar spacings of the DP structure, as well as the reaction-front migration rates during DP and DD reactions, are measured. Based on Aaronson and Liu’s simplified kinetics model, the grain-boundary diffusivities are estimated. They are found to be slightly lower than the grain-boundary diffusion data of Mn in Fe and Fe in Fe as reported by Aaronson and Liu.

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