Abstract:
In order to investigate and control the precipitation behavior of titanium carbide in Ti-steels produced by thin slab casting and rolling(TSCR),the structure and orientation relationship of TiC and Ti
2CS were studied by transmission electron microscopy(TEM).The results show that in the experimental steels Ti
2CS precipitates at relatively higher temperature than TiC.Ti
2CS precipitated previously can act as heterogeneous nucleation sites for TiC.Many tiny TiC particles grow from Ti
2CS.The results of electron diffraction and X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy show that the orientation relationship between TiC and Ti
2CS is 001
Ti2CS∥111
TiC,〈100〉
Ti2CS∥〈01
1〉
TiC.There are also some titanium carbide particles with twinned structure in the steels and the twinning plane is(
11
1).Therefore,the previous precipitates,either Ti
2CS or TiC,can provide preferential sites for latter TiC nucleation.Both of the twinning and epitaxial growth are important mechanisms for precipitation of titanium carbide in the TSCR steels.