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Proceedings of the Twenty-first (2011) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference Maui, Hawaii, USA, June 19-24, 2011 Copyright © 2011 by the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) ISBN 978-1-880653-96-8 (Set); ISSN 1098-6189 (Set); α to γ Reverse Transformation of Bainite and Martensite Microstructures under Various Heating Rates Takuya Hara1 2 3 3 ４ , Yasuhiro Shinohara , Genichi Shigesato , Masaaki Sugiyama and Toshihiko Koseki 1Nippon Steel Corporation Kimitsu RD Lab, Kimitsu Chiba Japan 2Nippon Steel Corporation Steel Research Laboratories, Shintomi Futtsu Chiba Japan 3Nippon Steel Corporation Advanced Research Laboratories, Futtsu Chiba Japan ４Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo Japan (2) Gorbach and Sadovskii (1958) reported that it is possible to ABSTRACT reconstitute the original prior γ grains by the coalescence of acicular γ grains. He also reported that this reconstitution is observed during rapid The same coarse austenite (γ) grains as those before austenitizing and slow heating rates, but not at intermediate heating rates. emerge when a marten