Quasi-stoichiometric coarsening of f.c.c. carbides in microalloyed austenite containing niobium and vanadium
Quasi-stoichiometric coarsening of f.c.c. carbides in microalloyed austenite containing niobium and vanadium
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f.c.c. 的准化学计量粗化
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10.1016/0921-5093(93)90404-3
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1993
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P. R. Rios
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P. R. Rios
The coarsening of NaCl-type (NbxV1−x)C carbides in austenite is examined. It is shown that, to reconcile the two equations for carbide growth, namely one for niobium and another for vanadium-controlled growth, the carbide composition must depend on its size. In principle this would invalidate the classical Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner (LSW) approach to coarsening. It is demonstrated, however, that the deviation of the carbide composition from the equilibrium composition may be small, depending on the temperature, alloy content and mean carbide radius. Therefore, it is proposed that, in such cases, the carbides can be regarded to be “quasi-stoichiometric” and it is shown that the LSW method can thus be applied. Although the present work focuses on (NbC)x(VC)1−x, its results are quite general and, in principle, can be applied to similar systems, namely non-stoichiometric, sparingly soluble compounds of PxQ1−x, coarsening in a matrix of an element M.