The relationship between microstructure parameters and mechanical properties was studied in this paper. The steel was heat-treated at different austenitizing temperatures to acquire varying microstructure. The results showed that austenite grain size increases with austenitizing temperature, while the pearlite colony size was relatively constant. The strength followed a Hall–Petch relationship with the austenite grain size, but the austenite grain size has nothing to do with the impact toughness. The control unit for determining the impact toughness of pearlitic steel is the pearlite colony size using a comparison method. Further studies have found that, in the hypoeutectoid steel and hypereutectoid steel, the pearlite colony size changes with the austenitizing temperature. However, when the eutectoid steel with a carbon content of 0.81% undergoes the isothermal transformation, the number of grain boundary precipitates is very few. There are many nucleation sites at the grain boundary. The pearlite colonies randomly nucleate at the grain boundaries and grow into the interior of the grains. Simultaneously, new pearlite colonies nucleate by the side of the existing pearlite colony. The intragranular pearlite colonies are also randomly nucleated. These nucleation sites increase the chance of the growing pearlite colonies colliding with each other, eventually resulting in a constant pearlite colony size.

A new type of low melting point Al-Si-Cu (Ni) filler metal for brazed 6063 aluminum alloy was designed, and the microstructure and properties of the filler metal were systematically studied. The results show that when the content of Cu in the Al-Si-Cu filler metal increased from 10 wt.% to 20 wt.%, the liquidus temperature of the filler metal decreased from 587.8 °C to 533.4 °C. Its microstructures were mainly composed of the α-Al phase, a primary Si phase, and a θ(Al₂Cu) phase. After a proper amount of Ni was added to the Al-Si-20Cu filler metal, its melting range was narrowed, the spreading wettability was improved, and the microstructure was refined. Its microstructure mainly includes α-Al solid solution, Si particles, and θ(Al₂Cu) and δ(Al₃Ni₂) intermetallic compounds. The results of the shear strength test indicate that the shear strength of the brazed joint with Al-6.5Si-20Cu-2.0Ni filler metal was 150.4 MPa, which was 28.32% higher than that of the brazed joint with Al-6.5Si-20Cu filler metal.

The dynamic recrystallization (DRX) behavior in the hot working of TB8 titanium alloy was studied by using the experiment and finite element simulation (FEM) method. The results showed that the DRX behavior of TB8 titanium alloys was drastically affected by the hot processing parameters. The rising deformation temperature and reducing strain rate led to an augmentation in the grain size ($d_{DRX}$) and volume fraction ($X_{DRX}$) of DRX grains. In view of the true stress–strain curves gained from the experiment, the $d_{DRX}$ and $X_{DRX}$ models of DRX grains were constructed. Based on the developed models for DRX of TB8 titanium alloy, the isothermal forging process of the cylindrical samples was simulated by the DEFORM-3D software. The distributions of the effective strain and $X_{DRX}$ for DRX were analyzed. A comparison of the $d_{DRX}$ and $X_{DRX}$ of DRX grains in the central regions of the samples between the experimental and FEM results was performed. A good correlation between the experimental and simulation results was obtained, indicating that the established FEM model presented good prediction capabilities.