“…Heat treatment of the studied steel was carried out according to the following modes: 1) QT: heating to 960 °C, 50 min., oil quenching, tempering at 200...600 °C, 3 h, air cooling; 2) QP1: heating to 960 °C, 50 min., isothermal holding at a temperature below Ms for 10 min., oil cooling, tempering at 200 °C, 3 h; 3) QP2: heating to 960 °C, 50 min., isothermal holding at a temperature below Ms for 10 min., isothermal holding at 500 °C, 60 min., oil cooling, tempering at 200 °C, 3 h; 4) QPT: heating to 960 °C, 50 min., isothermal holding at a temperature below Ms for 10 min., oil cooling, tempering at 500 °C, 2 h; 5) AT: heating to 960 °C, 50 min., austempering 270...390 °C, 60 min., oil cooling, tempering at 200 °C, 3 h. The optimal partitioning temperature for QP1, QP2 and QPT modes was calculated to be 270 °C according to the method [8].…”