TY - JOUR A1 - Österle, Werner A1 - Cho, C.-C. T1 - The role of grain size and ferrite substructure in respect to mechanical properties of an HSLA steel N2 - Several heat treatments were applied to an HSLA steel on type StE460 (German standard) to produce four ferrite substructures of different strength and at least two different grain sizes respectively. Whereas the ferrite substructure has a strong influence on yield strength the effect of grain size was negligible though probably to some extent masked by different pearlite volume fractions. The different strength levels could be explained by regarding the arrangement of dislocations and vanadium carbonitride particles and their mutual interaction. Increasing both grain size and pearlite volume fraction leads to a remarkable shift of transition temperature T sub 27J which was further enhanced by increasing ferrite strength. 16 ref.--AA PY - 1986 SN - 0177-4832 VL - 57 IS - 7 SP - 340 EP - 343 PB - Verl. Stahleisen CY - Düsseldorf AN - OPUS4-2452 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -