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The present investigation is concerned with basic studies of the mechanisms of acicular ferrite (AF)’formation in low-alloy steel weld metal. It is confirmed experimentally that different types of orientation relationships exist between AF and specific cubic inclusion constituent phases(i.e., γ-Al2 MnOAl2O3, and TiN). Since the majority of these falls within the Bain orientation region, it is concluded that the associated reduction of the energy barrier to nucleation is the primary cause for the ferrite nucleus to develop orientation relationships with both the substrate and the austenite. Theoretical calculations show that about 12 pct of the inclusions will contain a cubic phase that lies within the Bain region purely by chance if they are randomly orientated in space. This intrinsic density of heterogeneous nucleation sites is sufficiently high to promote the formation of fine, interlocking AF laths in the weld metal during they- to- a transformation.
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Grong, Ø., Kluken, A.O., Nylund, H.K. et al. Catalyst effects in heterogeneous nucleation of acicular ferrite. Metall Mater Trans A 26, 525–534 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02663903
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