Authors: Shigenari Hayashi Kouhei Mizumoto Suzue Yoneda Yasumitsu Kondo Hiroshi Tanei Shigeharu Ukai
Publish Date: 2013/08/29
Volume: 81, Issue: 3-4, Pages: 357-371
Abstract
The isothermal phase transformation behavior of thermally grown oxide scale of FeO which was formed on Fe at 700 °C in air for 16 min was investigated at 320 450 500 520 and 560 °C in air The phase transformation of FeO was found to consist of four transformation modes 1 growth of outer Fe3O4 layer 2 precipitation of Fe3O4 3 formation of magnetite seam and 4 eutectoid decomposition of FeO The transformation was always completed by the eutectoid decomposition at all temperatures in the present study however the proportion of transformation mode 1 and 2 strongly depended on temperature At higher temperatures growth of the outer Fe3O4 layer initially predominates but the precipitation of Fe3O4 controls the initial transformation at lower temperature before the eutectoid reaction The eutectoid reaction was found to be initiated by Fe nucleation from Fesaturated FeO Fe saturation in FeO was due to growth and/or precipitation of Fe3O4 and formation of the magnetite seam layer which acts as a diffusion barrier for Fe inward diffusion into Fe substrate It was proposed that these transformation modes growth and/or precipitation of Fe3O4 and magnetite seam formation are necessary to begin the eutectoid reaction ie completion of FeO scale transformation
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