Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy Study of Carbon-Vacancy Interaction in Low-Temperature Bainite Articles uri icon

publication date

  • January 2020

start page

  • 1

end page

  • 6

volume

  • 10

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 2045-2322

abstract

  • Nano-scale investigations of bainitic structures formed at temperatures below 350 °C have shown that the bainitic ferrite lattice is super-saturated in carbon. A high density of intrinsic defects would be playing a part in the carbon-supersaturation levels detected. In this work, the role of C−vacancy complexes on carbon-supersaturation in low temperature bainite is investigated by means of Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy. Results reveal the presence of a significant amount of monovacancies in the structures that plays an important role on the formation of carbon clusters in the ferrite lattice of nano-scale bainitic structures.

keywords

  • structural materials; theory and computation