Thermal cycling after forging allows for the aggregation of carbon onto these carbide formers, as carbon migrates much more rapidly than the carbide formers. Progressive thermal cycling leads to the coarsening of the cementite spheroids via Ostwald ripening.
Thermal cycling after forging allows for the aggregation of carbon onto these carbide formers, as carbon migrates much more rap.idly than the carbide formers Progressive thermal cycling leads to the coarsening of the cementite spheroids via Ostwald ripening.