EBSD as a tool to identify and quantify bainite and ferrite in low‐alloyed Al‐TRIP steels

Summary Bainite is thought to play an important role for the chemical and mechanical stabilization of metastable austenite in low‐alloyed TRIP steels. Therefore, in order to understand and improve the material properties, it is important to locate and quantify the bainitic phase. To this aim, electr...

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Published in:Journal of microscopy (Oxford) 2008-06, Vol.230 (3), p.499-508
Main Authors: ZAEFFERER, S., ROMANO, P., FRIEDEL, F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alloys - analysis
Bainite
EBSD
Ferric Compounds
Microscopy, Electron, Scanning - instrumentation
Microscopy, Electron, Transmission - methods
orientation gradients
Steel - analysis
TRIP‐steel
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Summary:Summary Bainite is thought to play an important role for the chemical and mechanical stabilization of metastable austenite in low‐alloyed TRIP steels. Therefore, in order to understand and improve the material properties, it is important to locate and quantify the bainitic phase. To this aim, electron backscatter diffraction–based orientation microscopy has been employed. The main difficulty herewith is to distinguish bainitic ferrite from ferrite because both have bcc crystal structure. The most important difference between them is the occurrence of transformation induced geometrically necessary dislocations in the bainitic phase. To determine the areas with larger geometrically necessary dislocation density, the following orientation microscopy maps were explored: pattern quality maps, grain reference orientation deviation maps and kernel average misorientation maps. We show that only the latter allow a reliable separation of the bainitic and ferritic phase. The kernel average misorientation threshold value that separates both constituents is determined by an algorithm that searches for the smoothness of the boundaries between them.
ISSN:0022-2720
1365-2818
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2818.2008.02010.x