Abstract
The effects of various factors on the concentrating process of carbide forming elements into cementite during the tempering of low-alloy steels have been investigated. The experimental results on the effect of the austenitizing temperature, the initial microstructures prior to tempering and the carbon contents of steels on the reaction are compared with the theoretical expectations. It is shown that the effects of these variables can be explained on the basis of the proposed diffusion-in-ferrite controlling model.
