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Influence of warm-working on quality of AISI 1015 carbon steel Carmen Medrea-Bichtas1, Gavril Negrea2 1Technological Education Institute of Pireaus, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Materials Technology, Aigaleo, Athens, Greece, email:medrea@internet.gr 2Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Muncii Avenue 103-105, 3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Abstract The quality of a low carbon steel depends on its chemical composition and microstructure. For a given chemical composition the properties of the steel depend on the microstructure which, at room temperature, consists of ferrite and pearlite. The finer the ferrite grains, the better the mechanical properties of the steel. This paper presents the influence of warm working parameters on microstructure and hardness of a low carbon steel (AISI 1015). Samples were subjected to torsion tests at different temperatures from 500 oC to? 700 oC in order to study their microstructure and mechanical properties .The microstructure of the samples was investigated by optical microscopy and quantitative microscopy? and the hardness was measured by Vickers method. The quality of warm worked steel could be compared with the normalized steel. The results did shown that the warm working can represent an efficient method for refining the structure of low carbon steel and can lead to the improvement of quality of this material. Keywords: warm-working, carbon steel, mechanical properties; microstructure 1. Introduction The low carbon steels are delivered, mainly, in normalized condition. Their properties, including the mechanical characteristics, depend on the chemical composition and microstructure. Low carbon steels present, at room temperature, a microstructure consisting of ferrite and pearlite grains [1]. The mechanical characteristics of ferrite-pearlite microstructure are strongly influenced by the ferrite grain size. The finer the ferrite grains, the better the mechanical properties of t