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Influence of austenitising temperature on the formation of strain induced martensite in austempered ductile iron
(2008) Daber, S.; Ravishankar, K.S.; Prasad Rao, P.P.
The present work was taken up to study the influence of austenitising temperature on the formation of strain-induced martensite in austempered ductile iron. Ductile iron containing 1.5 wt.% nickel, 0.3 wt.% molybdenum and 0.5 wt.% copper was subjected to austempering treatments which consisted of three austenitising temperatures, namely 850, 900 and 950 °C, and three austempering temperatures, namely 300, 350 and 400 °C. Tensile tests were carried out under all the heat-treatment conditions and strain-hardening behaviour was studied by applying Hollomon equation. Microstructures were studied by optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction. It was found that increasing austenitising temperature increased the tendency for the formation of strain-induced martensite at all the austempering temperatures. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.