Si-1.4 C by warm compression on a Bähr plastometer-dilatometer at 775° C and at 0.001 to
1 s− 1 strain rate range is reported. The material was prepared via powder metallurgy: cold
pressing and liquid phase sintering. Independent of strain rate, the initial martenstic
microstructure was transformed to ferrite and spheroidized cementite. Strain rate had an
effect on size and shape of spheroidized Fe3C precipitates: the higher the strain rate, the …