Dual-Phase Steels Characterization Using Magnetic Barkhausen Noise Measurements

International audienceMagnetic Barkhausen noise measurements have been carried out to characterize ferrite-martensite duplex microstructures and industrial Dual-Phase steels. We have first studied ferrite-martensite duplex steels, for which the volume fraction and the carbon content of martensite were higher than for industrial Dual-Phase steels. We found linear evolutions between ferrite peak parameters and its proportion. We applied these results to industrial Dual-Phase steels and show that Barkhausen noise measurement can be successfully used for Dual-Phase steels characterization, and in particular for assessment of ferrite proportion

Characterization of metallurgical transformations in multi-phase high strength steels by barkhausen noise measurement

International audienceThe potentialities of using the magnetic Barkhausen noise measurement in characterization of metallurgical transformations have been highlighted in multi-phase High Strength (HS) steels. This kind of steels are composed of different metallurgical constituents, such as ferrite, bainite, martensite or residual austenite. Recently, we found that it was possible to assess the proportion of phases in ferrite-martensite steels and in industrial Dual-Phase steels too. In this work, we show that the Barkhausen noise measurements can be also suitable to follow bainitic transformation in a TRIP steel

Evolution of Pearlite Microstructure in Low-Carbon Cast Microalloyed Steel Due to the Addition of La and Ce

The effects of rare earth elements (RE) addition on the pearlite microstructure in low-carbon microalloyed steels have been investigated under two heat treatment conditions: (1) a normalizing treatment (as a conventional heat treatment used industrially to obtain the final mechanical properties of such steels), and (2) an isothermal treatment at 650 °C. This research reports the following effects due to the addition of RE: (i) refinement of the nodule and colony size of pearlite along with the ferrite grain size in the normalized condition, without a significant change in the volume fraction of pearlite. This microstructural refinement observed at room temperature is a consequence of the refinement of cast and austenitic microstructures formed during cooling in the presence of RE; (ii) the interlamellar spacing of pearlite isothermally transformed at 650 °C, as observed by SEM and TEM, is effectively reduced in the RE-added steel. This is likely due to two different effects combined: (i) direct influence of RE on atom carbon diffusion; and (ii) pearlite growth being boundary diffusion controlled by RE partitioning.The authors from the University of Tehran gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Office of International Affairs and the Office of Research Affairs, College of Engineering, for the project number 8107009.6.34. The authors from CENIM-CSIC would like to acknowledge the financial support from Comunidad de Madrid through DIMMAT-CM_S2013/MIT-2775 Project.Peer Reviewe