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CCT and DCCT steel diagrams of the steel 32CrB4 were determined by the universal plastometer GLEEBLE 3 800 on the basis of dilatometric tests. Dilatometric analysis showed that compared to the diagram provided by the software QTSteel th e noses of individual curves are in fact shifted towards shorter times. Preceding deformation significantly affected the decay diagram of the investigated steel. Shorter times, which were available for recovery of the deformed structure during more rapid cooling, resulted in a significant shift of the curves in the DCCT diagram towards shorter times. At low cooling rates the effect of deformation was practically negligible, since recrystallization took place between the deformation and beginning of the phase transformation. Web of Science 54 3 476 473

Various physical methods for the determination of phase transformation temperatures were compared using C-Mn and C-Mn-V-Nb steels. The measurement using temperature scanner, variously located thermocouples, dilatometer, diff erent thermal analysis (DTA) and anisothermal plastometric test were completed. The specimens were heated to 1 323 K and 1 473 K in the case of the C-Mn-V-Nb microalloyed steel. The aim of the diff erent heat treatment were to obtain diff erent levels of precipitates’ dissolution. It was found that the better particles’ distribution and precipitation due to the cooling lead to the enlargement of the two-phase region in the material. The good agreement of result gained by used methods was achieved. We found that all used methods can be used for common steels, but the temperature scanner seems not to be precious enough for microalloyed steels. Web of Science 52 4 528 525

Rods from mild steel S235JR were intensively rolled in the laboratory continuous mill. Specifically defined temperature of phase transformation Ar was determined from the free cooling curves measured by the temperature scanner. The Ar value increased from 763 to 786 °C with rolling temperature descending from 1 200 to 800 °C. The value of Ar = 730 °C was obtained at free cooling of the non-deformed rod of the same diameter 9,8 mm from heating temperature 1 000 °C. The obtained results were compared with continuous cooling transformation (CCT) and deformation continuous cooling transformation (DCCT) diagrams based on the dilatometric tests. Web of Science 55 4 658 655

Rolling of round bar made of steel 32CrB4 was simulated physically. The interrupted torsion test led to the fi nal microstructure with coarser grains, however, thanks to comparatively large dimensions of the sample this type of experiment was not so sensitive to the cooling rate of the fi nal cooling as compression test. Too high temperature of the end of controlled cooling of the samples after compression test led to partial self-quenching of the investigated material. Decelerated cooling below the temperature of the start of martensitic transformation led in both applied types of compression tests to the parameters of the resulting microstructure and hardness closest to the parameters obtained after laboratory rolling. Web of Science 53 3 302 299