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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2011
Application of high intensity electric pulse (HIEP) to a severely deformed eutectoid microstructure in high carbon steel wire has resulted in spheroidized microstructure. The observed spheroidization on electropulsing is compared with that reported for isothermal/thermo-mechanical annealing of the pearlite structure. The faster kinetics observed in this study has been rationalized in terms of accelerated kinetics induced by HIEP.