“…In the present case, a soaking temperature of 1200°C was found to be optimum, because, in this temperature, austenite grain size was neither too big, nor too small. It was observed by earlier authors that high recrystallisation and rolling temperatures allow austenite to recrystallise to relatively coarse grains before direct quenching, which is not desirable 37. Again, lowering the soaking temperature too much will lead to the operational difficulties.…”