The Comparative Mössbauer Analysis of Superfine Structure of Hadfield Steel upon Different Kinds of Severe Deformation

Severe plastic deformation (friction, compression shear, filing or rolling) of Hadfield steel leads to the growth of the internal effective field on 57Fe cores, removal of the magnetic degeneracy in spectra, and the extension of the paraprocess up to room temperature. The observed change of the magnetic characteristics is explained by the deformation-induced redistribution of carbon and short-range ordering of carbon and manganese. Since the magnetic degeneracy is removed in the Hadfield steel upon deformation, it is possible to consider a mechanism of magnetic precipitation hardening, which is realized in local magnetically ordered regions of the structure containing Mn-C pairs.