H. Kwon et al., EFFECT OF ALLOYING ADDITIONS ON SECONDARY HARDENING BEHAVIOR OF MO-CONTAINING STEELS, Metallurgical and materials transactions. A, Physical metallurgy andmaterials science, 28(3), 1997, pp. 621-627
The effect of alloying additions on secondary hardening behavior in Fe
-Mo-C steels has been investigated by means of the successive alloying
additions of Cr, Co, and Ni. The Cr additions promote M(3)C cementite
formation. The Ni additions destabilize the cementite formation, whil
e the Co additions retard dislocation recovery and present the necessa
ry sites for M(2)C formation which provides the secondary hardening.