Jing Guo, Hong-wei Qu, Li-gang Liu, Yan-liang Sun, Yue Zhang, and Qing-xiang Yang, Study on stable and meta-stable carbides in a high speed steel for rollers during tempering processes, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 20(2013), No. 2, pp. 146-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-013-0706-7
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Jing Guo, Hong-wei Qu, Li-gang Liu, Yan-liang Sun, Yue Zhang, and Qing-xiang Yang, Study on stable and meta-stable carbides in a high speed steel for rollers during tempering processes, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 20(2013), No. 2, pp. 146-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-013-0706-7
Jing Guo, Hong-wei Qu, Li-gang Liu, Yan-liang Sun, Yue Zhang, and Qing-xiang Yang, Study on stable and meta-stable carbides in a high speed steel for rollers during tempering processes, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 20(2013), No. 2, pp. 146-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-013-0706-7
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Jing Guo, Hong-wei Qu, Li-gang Liu, Yan-liang Sun, Yue Zhang, and Qing-xiang Yang, Study on stable and meta-stable carbides in a high speed steel for rollers during tempering processes, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 20(2013), No. 2, pp. 146-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-013-0706-7
A high speed steel (HSS) was studied for rollers in this work. The steel was quenched at 1150℃ and tempered at 520℃. The phase structures of the steel were determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD), and the hardness of specimens was measured. The volume fraction of carbides was counted by Image-Pro Plus software. The typical microstructures were observed by field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM). Stable and meta-stable carbides were deduced by removing the existing phases one by one in the Fe-C equilibrium calculation. It is found that the precipitated carbides are bulk-like MC, long stripe-like M2C, fishbone-like M6C, and daisy-like M7C3 during the tempering process. The stable carbides are MC and M6C, but the meta-stable ones are M2C, M7C3, and M3C.