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1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, PR China.
Abstract:
Microstructure of pearlitic steels subjected different heat treatments were characterized combining the usage of back-scattered electron imaging and electron backscatter diffraction in a scanning electron microscope. The results indicated that the method used in current study enabled the acquisition of pearlite nodule, colony and interlamellar spacing of pearlite structure only through sample preparation of one time. Both the morphology of pearlite lamellae and the crystallographic orientation of ferrite matrix can be released in back-scattered electron imaging image and electron backscatter diffraction micrograph acquired at the same region. The definitions of pearlite colony and the low-angle boundaries existed in ferrite matrix were also discussed based on this method.
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