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Boron microalloying of steel allows the manufacturer to increase its hardenability or decrease the content of alloying elements. Boron steels have a wide application range, but the optimum boron content that would ensure maximum hardenability of boron steels has not been strictly determined. In this paper, the effect of the boron content (0.000005 – 0.005%) on the hardenability of low-carbon and low-alloy steels is investigated.
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Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 1, pp. 24–26, January, 1995.
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Azarkevich, A.A., Kovalenko, L.V. & Krasnopolskii, V.M. The optimum content of boron in steel. Met Sci Heat Treat 37, 22–24 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01151795
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01151795