The microstructure and kinetics of discontinuous precipitation in Cu–3.2 Ti–0.2 Fe–xV (x= 0,
0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 wt.%) alloys aged at 723, 773, 823 and 873 K were studied by using optical …

The phase-field method is used as a powerful and versatile computational method to
simulate the microstructural evolution taking place during solid-state phase transformations …

Grand-potential based multiphase-field model is extended to include surface diffusion.
Diffusion is elevated in the interface through a scalar degenerate term. In contrast to the …

The fatigue lifetime of two API 5L X52 steels retired from long-term service was investigated.
Both steels presented pearlite fragmentation, fine precipitate particles and spheroidized …

The demand for higher speeds and heavier loads has emphasized the necessity to tackle
the inherent trade-off between strength and toughness in pearlitic rail steels. Herein, the co …

The influence of steel microstructure and phase distribution on the corrosion initiation and
chloride threshold value was investigated in a simulated concrete pore solution. Normalizing …

Herein, the thermodynamic and kinetic limitations of carbide dissolution behavior during the
traditional heat treatment process are broken through the external field treatment. The …

Mechanical properties of steels are significantly enhanced by retained austenite.
Particularly, it has been shown that a recently developed heat-treatment technique called …

A new annealing process, spheroidation-critical annealing, was designed to optimize the
properties of carburized steel 15CrNiMo instead of the traditional process. In this study, four …

Phase-field modelling of microstructural evolution in polycrystalline systems with phase-
associated grains has largely been confined to continuum-field models. In this study, a …