Materials Science Forum, Vol.475-479, 93-96, 2005
Microstructures and properties of a bainite and martensite dual-phase cast steel fabricated by combination of alloying and controlled cooling heat treatment
A bainite/martensite dual-phase cast steel was fabricated by a process of combination of alloying with Si and Mn elements and controlled cooling heat-treatment. Its microstructure was consisted of fine lower bainite with carbide particles precipitated homogeneously, martensite and a little residual austenite. Because of the good match of hardness and impact toughness, its impact wear performance was a little better than that of the isothermal quenching steel, and much better than that of high manganese steel such as Mn13.