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ABSTRACT
Hot deformation of copper-containing microalloyed steels in the two-phase region was carried out to study the effect of copper on transformation and recrystallization behaviour of ferrite in HSLA steels. it was found that presence of copper could decrease the austenite to ferrite transformation temperature. The precipitation of epsilon-copper in ferrite could retard recovery and recrystallization by dislocation and grain boundary pinning in deformed ferrite. Retardation of transformation and ferrite recrystallization resulted in a less mixed structure consisting of fine transformed and recrystallized ferrite in the copper-containing steels.