Details of pearlite to austenite transformation in steel
Experiments and phase-field modeling
Vitoria Mattos Mattos Ferreira (TU Delft - Team Maria Santofimia Navarro)
M.G. Mecozzi (TU Delft - Team Erik Offerman)
R.H. Petrov (Universiteit Gent, TU Delft - Team Maria Santofimia Navarro)
Jilt Sietsma (TU Delft - Team Joris Dik)
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Abstract
The austenitization of an initial pearlitic microstructure is simulated using the phase field model to achieve insight into White Etching Layer (WEL) formation in pearlitic railway steels. The simulations take into account the resolution of the cementite lamellae within a pearlite colony as well as the presence of pro-eutectoid ferrite. The austenite growth kinetics and morphology obtained via simulations are compared with dilatometry and microscopy observations. The influence of γ/θ and γ/α mobilities on the austenite growth morphology are studied. The simulations reproduce the microstructural features as well as the experimentally observed kinetics behavior of austenite formation, involving the correlation between mobilities and nucleation behavior.
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