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Materials Research . 2012; 15(2): 317-322 © 2012 DOI: 10.1590/S1516-14392012005000021 Effect of Initial Microstructures on the Properties of Ferrite-martensite Dual-phase Pipeline Steels with Strain-based Design Yueyue Hu, Xiurong Zuo*, Rutao Li, Zhanzhan Zhang School of Physics and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Daxue North Road, 75, CEP 450052, Zhengzhou, China Received: October 18, 2011; Revised: January 15, 2012 This study aims to investigate the effect of initial microstructures on the properties of ferrite- martensite dual-phase pipeline steels with strain-based design. For this purpose, the as-received acicular ferrite steels were first austenitized at 920 °C for 15 minutes followed by air cooling and water quenching to produce ferrite-pearlite and ferrite-martensite microstructure, respectively. Subsequently, the steels with ferrite-pearlite, ferrite-martensite and as-received acicular ferrite microstructure were intercritically annealed at 820 °C for 10 minutes followed by water quenching to produce three different ferrite-martensite dual-phase microstructures. Tensile tests, Vickers hardness and Charpy impact tests were carried out to investigate the mechanical properties. Scanning electron microscope was used to analyze the microstructures and tensile fractographs. The results showed that all the tensile specimens of these three different ferrite-martensite dual-phase steels fractured in ductile mode, however, their microstructures and mechanical propert