ABSTRACT

13.1 Structural Changes During Reheating

During the reheating process, control of the grain coarsing behavior of steels is an important step in designing thermomechanical processes to achieve fine-grained products [1,2]. For microalloyed steels, the reheating temperature must be high enough to provide solubility of stable particles. If stable particles remain undissolved, beneficial precipitation hardening effects cannot be obtained.