Austenite Grain Growth Kinetics in API X65 and X70 LinePipe Steels during Isothermal Heating

Journal Article

Almajid, Asiful Hossain Seikh, Mahmoud S. Soliman, Abdulhakim . 2014

• نوع عمل المنشور: Reseatch project
• المجلة \ الصحيفة: Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
• رقم الإصدار السنوي: 2014

مستخلص المنشور

The aim of the present work is to investigate the microstructural behavior of austenite grain size (AGS) during the reheating process of two different API steel grades (X65 and X70). The steel samples were austenitized at 1150ºC, 1200ºC and 1250ºC for various holding times from 10 to 60 minutes and quenched in ice water. The samples were then annealed at 500ºC for 24 hours to reveal the prior AGS using optical microscopy. It was noticed that the AGS in X65 grade is coarser than that of X70 grade. Additionally, the grain size increases with increasing the reheating temperature and time for both steels. The kinetics of grain growth was studied using the equation:
 
, where d is the measured grain size, do is  the initial grain size, n is the grain size exponent, t is the heating time, T is the heating temperature, Q is the activation energy, R is the gas constant and A is a constant. To characterize the grain growth process the values of n, Q and A were determined. Good agreement is obtained between the prediction of the model and the experimental grain size values.