Abstract
The austenite decomposition into ferrite during continuous cooling
in low-carbon steel has been investigated with a twodimensional
cellular automaton (CA) approach. In this model, the growth of ferrite
grain is controlled by both carbon diffusion and
c�a interface dynamics. In order to predict the growth kinetics
of ferrite grain, the coupled carbon diffusion behavior in untransformed
austenite and c�a interface dynamics are numerically resolved. The
simulation provides an insight into the carbon diffusion
process in retained austenite and microstructure evolution during
the transformation. The predicted ferrite growth kinetics and
average grain size at different cooling rates are compared with experimental
results in the literature and the simulated results show
that the final grain size and newly formed ferrite fraction vary with
cooling rate. The c�a interface is stable in the studied cooling
rate
range (up to 58 Cs1) in this work, so the simulated morphology of
ferrite grain is almost equiaxed, which is not influenced by the
anisotropy of the hexagonal mesh in this CA model.
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