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It is demonstrated that in a high-carbon steel where carbide precipitation is suppressed, bainite can be
obtained by isothermal transformation at temperatures as low as 200°C. The time taken for nucleation at
this temperature can be many days, but the transformation results in the growth of extremely thin platelets
of bainite, so thin that the hardness of the resulting steel can be greater than 600 HV.
Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council (U.K.) and the U.K.
Ministry of Defence
Peer reviewed