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The plastic-flow behavior of ferrite + pearlite, pearlite + cementite, and austenite + cementite mixtures in plain carbon steels has been examined over the temperature range 500 to 1050 °C, strain-rate range 6 x l0−6 to 2 x l0−2 s−1, and carbon range 0.005C to 1.89C. Up to the eutectoid temperature the strength of the ferrite + pearlite mixture more than doubles as the carbon content increases from 0.005C to 0.7C, so that whereas in low-carbon steels the ferrite is weaker than the higher temperature austenite phase, in eutectoid steels the fully pearlitic structure is stronger than the fully austenitic structure. Manganese and silicon strengthen ferrite more effectively than they do austenite. A 0.17 pct phosphorus addition strengthens the ferrite + pearlite mixture across the range of microstructures from fully ferritic to fully pearlitic. Beyond the eutectoid composition, the amount of proeutectoid cementite does not significantly affect the strength of the pearlite, but above the eutectoid temperature it appreciably strengthens the austenite and cementite mixture at the strain rate of 2 X 10-2 s-1.
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Wray, P.J. High temperature plastic-flow behavior of mixtures of austenite, cementite, ferrite, and pearlite in plain-carbon steels. Metall Trans A 15, 2041–2058 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02646839
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