Effects of alloying elements and cooling rate on γ grain growth behavior in the solidification and subsequent cooling processes of low alloy steels have been studied in relation to surface cracking of continuously cast (CC) slabs.
Grain growth of γ phase occurs rapidly below a completion temperature of transformation into γ phase (
Tγ ), since strong pinning effect of the second phase such as δ-ferrite and/or liquid phase on γ grain boundary migration disappears. Thus γ grain size of as-cast steels can mainly be determined by
Tγ, i.e., the maximum grain size is obtained at a peritectic composition, as expected from Fe-C phase diagram. The carbon concentration at the peritectic point is significantly shifted by the addition of alloying elements. The coefficient
kx on the shifting was determined separately for Mn, Ni, Si, Cr and S. Using the
kx for element
X, carbon equivalent (
Cp) for perifectic reaction of low alloy steels can be written additively as
Cp= C+Σi
kxi·
XiIn the same composition, the γ grains are largely refined by increasing the cooling rate because of the effects of decrease in
Tγ and of the suppress of γ grain boundary migration below
Tγ.
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