热处理工艺对8Cr4Mo4V钢疲劳裂纹扩展速率的影响

研究了四组不同工艺热处理的8Cr4Mo4V钢试样的疲劳裂纹扩展速率及其疲劳断口。结果表明:淬回火8Cr4Mo4V钢的室温疲劳裂纹扩展速率在裂纹稳定扩展阶段符合Paris公式,其大小与热处理工艺有关,主要取决于马氏体中的固溶碳含量,马氏体中的固溶碳含量越高,疲劳裂纹扩展速率也越大,而与该钢是否经过冷处理没有明显关系;淬回火8Cr4Mo4V钢疲劳断口的微观形貌以准解理为主,马氏体(211)晶面的X射线衍射峰半高宽越小,疲劳裂纹扩展速率也越小,疲劳断口上的拉伸残余应力则越大。     

热处理对Cr17Ni2钢组织和冲击韧性的影响

本文研究了热处理理论对 Cr17Ni2钢组织和冲击韧性的影响,结果表明,将淬火温度提高至1050℃以上,可大大提高冲击韧性。晶界和相界上(Cr、Fe)_(23)C_6碳化物的溶解是冲击韧性增加的主要原因;此外,板条间残留奥氏体薄膜对冲击韧性提高也有贡献。冲击断口的结构可反映断裂特征的组织情况。考虑到室温力学性能,作者建议了合适的热处理工艺,生产中虚用效果良好。     

硼对刃具钢组织与性能的影响

为研制开发适合水淬的新型刃具钢,采用显微组织观察、力学性能测试、热处理试验和磨粒磨损试验等技术手段,对比研究了含硼中碳钢与不含硼的65Mn钢热轧后与热处理后的显微组织和应用性能.结果表明:热轧态中碳含硼钢中存在较多铁素体相,强硬性更低,韧塑性更好;中碳含硼钢水淬回火后组织为回火马氏体,硬度可达50 HRC以上,高于油淬回火的65Mn钢,韧塑性和耐磨性也明显好于65Mn钢.中碳含硼钢完全适合水淬工艺,减少了工业污染,符合环保要求.     

原奥氏体晶粒尺寸对珠光体钢组织及韧性的影响

探索了奥氏体晶粒尺寸对珠光体等温转变组织特征以及对韧性性能的影响规律.研究表明,在相同等温转变温度下,珠光体片层间距无明显变化,随奥氏体晶粒尺寸的增加,先共析铁素体量减少而珠光体团尺寸增加.珠光体断裂韧性受控于裂纹前沿塑性影响区尺寸(1～2)δc,其中δc为临界裂纹张开位移,当原奥氏体晶粒大于(1～2)δc时,裂纹扩展阻力主要来自穿越珠光体片层α、θ相的颈缩、破断.当原奥氏体晶粒尺寸接近或小于(1～2)δc时,裂纹主要沿晶界、珠光体团界、α+θ片层界面扩展,通过扩展路径发生多次弯折消耗能量,随原奥氏体晶粒尺寸增加,准静态断裂韧度J变化幅度较小.而冲击韧性缺口前沿塑性影响区远大于原奥氏体晶粒,大角度晶界将促使裂纹的转折而提高扩展阻力,提高裂纹前沿塑性区大角度晶界密度有利于提高冲击功,冲击韧性A随晶粒尺寸的增加显著下降.     

原奥氏体晶粒尺寸对珠光体钢组织及韧性的影响

探索了奥氏体晶粒尺寸对珠光体等温转变组织特征以及对韧性性能的影响规律。研究表明,在相同等温转变温度下,珠光体片层间距无明显变化,随奥氏体晶粒尺寸的增加,先共析铁素体量减少而珠光体团尺寸增加。珠光体断裂韧性受控于裂纹前沿塑性影响区尺寸(1~2)δc,其中δc为临界裂纹张开位移,当原奥氏体晶粒大于(1~2)δc时,裂纹扩展阻力主要来自穿越珠光体片层α、θ相的颈缩、破断。当原奥氏体晶粒尺寸接近或小于(1~2)δc时,裂纹主要沿晶界、珠光体团界、α+θ片层界面扩展,通过扩展路径发生多次弯折消耗能量,随原奥氏体晶粒尺寸增加,准静态断裂韧度J变化幅度较小。而冲击韧性缺口前沿塑性影响区远大于原奥氏体晶粒,大角度晶界将促使裂纹的转折而提高扩展阻力,提高裂纹前沿塑性区大角度晶界密度有利于提高冲击功,冲击韧性Ak随晶粒尺寸的增加显著下降。     

金属型铸造Fe_3Al金属间化合物的组织和力学性能

研究了中频感应炉熔炼、金属型冷却制备的Fe3Al铸态及热处理后的组织、力学性能和冲击断裂行为。结果表明:合金的铸态组织为等轴晶,平均晶粒尺寸约为100μm左右;合金经1000℃,15h均匀化退火+炉冷+600℃,1h中温回火+油淬热处理后,晶界得到了细化,晶内和晶界上析出了弥散分布的第二相,合金晶粒尺寸有所长大;XRD及EPMA点扫描分析综合得出弥散相的主要成分为Fe2AlCr,基体主要相组成为Fe2AlCr、Fe3Al、FeAl,晶界处主要相组成为Fe2AlCr和FeCr;热处理后合金的σb提高了46MPa,HRC由铸态时的22.5提高到了26.8,但合金的冲击韧性有所下降;铸态时合金的断裂方式主要以沿晶断裂为主,热处理后合金断口呈沿晶+穿晶的混合型断裂特征。     

高强度超细晶金属材料塑性行为及增塑研究进展

强度和塑性是金属结构材料最重要的力学性能指标,金属高性能化的关键是在高强度水平下保证良好的塑性,然而两者往往不能兼顾。在众多强化方法中,晶粒细化长期以来被认为是强化金属最理想的手段,在传统晶粒尺寸范围,细化晶粒既可以显著提高材料的强度,又能改善材料的塑韧性。因此,近几十年来超细晶/纳米晶金属得到了广泛研究和发展,出现了以大塑性变形(SPD)、先进形变热处理(ATMP)技术为代表的超细晶制备方法,所得晶粒可以细化到亚微米或纳米尺度,金属性能大大提高。然而,大量研究证实当晶粒细化到亚微米或纳米尺度时金属强度提高但塑性显著下降,与传统的细晶强化规律不符。对此,国内外学者进行了很多研究,试图阐明其机理、揭示晶粒超细化导致塑性降低的物理本质。此外,由于细化晶粒方法受到塑性的限制,新的高强度水平下增强塑性的方法成为钢铁材料高性能化的研究热点。针对塑性下降的事实,为了进一步提高超细晶金属材料性能,研究者开展了许多增强塑性的工作,获得了较好的效果,但仍存在一些不足。关于金属晶粒超细化导致塑性降低的普遍共性现象,目前广泛认可的理论主要有晶界捕获(吸收)位错的动态回复理论、位错运动湮灭理论、高初始位错密度以及位错源缺失机制等。前三者都主要关注超细晶金属材料低(无)加工硬化能力,并将其归结为延伸率降低所致。主要是因为低(无)加工硬化使材料在变形早期发生塑性失稳或局部变形从而表现出低塑性。超细晶金属增塑研究主要体现在增塑方法和机理方面,目前,增塑方法主要有(1)形成纳米孪晶;(2)获得粗晶-细晶双峰组织;(3)利用相变诱发塑性/孪生诱发塑性(TRIP/TWIP)效应;(4)引入铁素体软相;(5)利用纳米第二相粒子等。这些增塑方法的主要机理是利用组织结构的改变提高超细晶金属的加工硬化能力以维持良好的均匀塑性变形以及利用组织相变提高塑性。本文归纳了常用的超细晶金属制备方法,综述了超细晶金属材料塑性降低的研究进展,总结了超细晶金属增塑的研究结果,分析了目前研究中存在的不足,探讨了超细晶金属增强增塑的发展趋势,以期为超细晶金属塑性降低理论及增强增塑研究提供参考。     

低温对超高强度钢断裂行为的影响

为了研究低温对超高强度钢断裂行为的影响,采用37SiMnCrNiMoV钢的表面予裂板状试件,经正常热处理(930℃,15分,油淬,280℃回火)后,在-196～20℃的温度范围内进行试验。随温度的变化,其断裂韧度值由85kgf·mm~(3/2)(-196℃)变到195·7kgf·mm~_(3/2)(20℃),而试样平断口区域中准解理刻面的百分数由100％(-196℃)变到15％(20℃)。本文指出了超高强度钢与低碳钢冷脆行为的差异并进行了讨论。本工作中还研究了奥氏体化保温时间,含碳量和低温回火脆性对超高强度钢低温断裂行为的影响。     

回火温度对X90管线钢焊接接头组织性能的影响

对X90管线钢埋弧焊焊接接头在500~600℃高温回火处理,之后进行拉伸、硬度和冲击测试,并利用扫描电镜对焊接接头显微组织及断口进行分析。结果表明,回火处理后的试样组织多边形类晶粒增多,且M/A组织逐渐分解;其中抗拉强度在回火温度为600℃时下降幅度最大;冲击韧性在550℃时达到峰值208.70J,提高了41.9%;回火温度在500~600℃时,试样呈软化-硬化的规律。试验结果表明,经过550℃热处理后的焊接接头塑韧性得到明显改善,其具有良好的综合性能,这一好的性能归因于组织内M/A淬硬相的分解、位错的重组合并及较少的析出相。     

ECAP过程中铁素体不锈钢的结构演化和力学性能EI北大核心CSCD

研究了固溶态0Cr13铁素体不锈钢在室温1-4道次等径转角挤压(ECAP)过程中的结构演化和力学性能.结果表明:0Cr13钢在挤压变形过程中晶粒的细化行为在介观上表现为在形变带作用下的晶粒分割;微观上则表现为位错分割机制下的晶粒碎化。四道次后形成了均匀的等轴超细晶结构,平均晶粒尺寸约349 nm。室温拉伸和冲击测试结果表明,实验钢在一道次EACP加工后强度提高,韧塑性下降。后续更高道次挤压变形在使样品强度继续提高的同时,冲击韧性也适当改善了。高道次(3、4道次)样品的冲击韧性大致可以恢复到挤压加工前的～30%。因晶粒细化和动态回复而导致的静力韧度提高和断裂机制转变,是造成高道次样品冲击韧性改善的原因。     

Ⅰ-Ⅱ复合型裂纹脆性断裂的最小J_2准则

实际工程的结构中,裂纹多处于复合型状态,因此复合型裂纹断裂的理论研究有着更为重要的理论意义和实用价值。本文以Ⅰ-Ⅱ复合型裂纹为研究对象,将偏应力张量的第二不变量2J作为判定依据,预测了裂纹起裂的角度以及开裂荷载,并与一些实验数据进行了比较,符合得也较好。计算结果进一步表明了在裂纹起裂引起的应变能转化过程中,起主要作用的是形状改变比能这一事实,由此得出了另一个结论是在裂纹尖端,平行于裂纹方向的应力级数展开式中非奇异项对裂纹的开裂角度以及开裂荷载是有影响的。     

Three-dimensional numerical investigation of brittle bond fracture

A fracture mechanics based analysis of interface bond failure is presented. The bond edge is regarded as an interface crack front loaded under combined mode 1, 2 and 3 loading, and results are obtained for the critical stress for initiation of bond failure and the location along the bond edge where failure is initiated. A numerical procedure is formulated to study the propagation of the interface crack following initiation. Assuming that the crack propagates at the interface, a criterion for propagation is formulated, and it is shown that the crack front shape predicted is consistent with the basic interface fracture mechanics assuming quasi-static crack propagation. Results for the bond strength are presented for different fracture criteria and different bond shapes.     

Calibration procedures for a computational model of ductile fracture

A recent extension of the Gurson constitutive model of damage and failure of ductile structural alloys accounts for localization and crack formation under shearing as well as tension. When properly calibrated against a basic set of experiments, this model has the potential to predict the emergence and propagation of cracks over a wide range of stress states. This paper addresses procedures for calibrating the damage parameters of the extended constitutive model. The procedures are demonstrated for DH36 steel using data from three tests: (i) tension of a round bar, (ii) mode I cracking in a compact tension specimen, and (iii) shear localization and mode II cracking in a shear-off specimen. The computational model is then used to study the emergence of the cup-cone fracture mode in the neck of a round tensile bar. Ductility of a notched round bar provides additional validation.     

On the failure of cracks under mixed-mode loads

Fracture of plates containing a crack under mixed-mode, I and II, loading conditions is investigated. Fracture mechanisms are first examined from fracture surface morphology to correlate with the macroscopic fracture behavior. Two distinct features are observed and they are typical of shear and tensile types of failure. From this correlation, a fracture criterion based on the competition of the attainment of a tensile fracturing stress σ_{_C} and a shear fracturing stress τ_{_C} at a fixed distance around the crack tip is proposed. Material ductility is incorporated using τ_{_C}/σ_{_C} determined from classical material failure theories. The type of fracture is predicted by comparing τ_{_max}/σ_{_max} at r=r_{_C} for a given mixed mode loading to the material ductility_{τ_C/σ_C} , i.e. τ_{_max}/σ_{_max})<(τ_{_C} /σ_{_C}) for tensile type of fracture and (τ_{_max}/σ_{_max}) r (τ_{_C}/ σ_{_C}) for shear type of fracture. It is found that, for typical engineering structural metals with certain ductility, (1) crack propagation initiates according to the maximum hoop stress criterion when the the mode mixity is near mode I and according to the maximum shear stress criterion when the mode mixity is near mode II, and (2) the transition of the failure from tensile to shear type can be predicted by the proposed criterion. For brittle materials the maximum hoop (opening) stress always reaches the tensile fracturing stress before the maximum shear stress reaches the shear fracturing stress of the material at a crack tip. Therefore, specimens made of brittle materials tend to fail under the maximum hoop stress criterion, as demonstrated by Erdogan and Sih (1963) and others. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

A new method to estimate the plane strain fracture toughness of materials

Although the testing method for fracture toughness K_IC has been implemented for decades, the strict specimen size requirements make it difficult to get the accurate K_IC for the high‐toughness materials. In this study, different specimen sizes of high‐strength steels were adopted in fracture toughness testing. Through the observations on the fracture surfaces of the K_IC specimen, it is shown that the fracture energy can be divided into 2 distinct parts: (1) the energy for flat fracture and (2) the energy for shear fracture. According to the energy criterion, the K_IC values can be acquired by small‐size specimens through derivation. The results reveal that the estimated toughness value is consistent with the experimental data. The new method would be widely applied to predict the fracture toughness of metallic materials with small‐size specimens.     

不同形态铁素体试样低温断裂行为的研究

采用热模拟方法,模拟不同形态的针状铁素体、板条状铁素体和魏氏组织的试样,测定试样的断裂参量,发现不同形态伯铁素体具有不同的解理断裂应力σｆ,而且韧性高的σｆ也高;断口分析结果也表明,不同的铁素体具有不同的断口特征。低温下解理断裂的发生满足两个条件;切应力达到临界的切应力;正应力达到解理断裂应力。     

Discrete fractal fracture mechanics

A modification of the classical theory of brittle fracture of solids is offered by relating discrete nature of crack propagation to the fractal geometry of the crack. The new model incorporates all previously considered theories of fracture processes, in particular the Griffith [Griffith AA. The phenomenon of rupture and flow in solids. Philos Trans Roy Soc Lond 1921;A221:163-398] theory, its contemporary extension known as LEFM and the most recently developed Quantized Fracture Mechanics (QFM) by Pugno and Ruoff [Pugno N, Ruoff RS. Quantized fracture mechanics. Philos Mag 2004;84(27):2829-45]. Using an equivalent smooth blunt crack for a given fractal crack, we find that assuming that radius of curvature of the blunt crack is a material property, the crack roughens while propagating. In other words, fractal dimension at the crack tip is a monotonically increasing function of the nominal crack length, i.e., the presence of the Mirror-Mist-Hackle phenomenon is analytically demonstrated.     

Evaluation of the fracture toughness properties of polytetrafluoroethylene

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) (Dupont Tradename Teflon) is a common polymer with many structural applications including sheet, gaskets, bearing pads, piston rings and diaphragms. The interest here developed because this polymer is being considered as the major component of a newly proposed `reactive' material with a possible application as a projectile to replace common inertial projectiles. Little mechanical property data is available on this material since it is commonly used only as a coating material with the dominant properties being its low friction coefficient and high application temperature. Previous work (Joyce, 2003) on commercially available sheet PTFE material has demonstrated the applicability of the normalization method of ASTM E1820 (1999), the elastic-plastic fracture toughness standard to develop fracture toughness properties of this material over a range of test temperatures and loading rates. Additional work on the aluminum filled `reactive' derivative of the basic PTFE polymer (Joyce and Joyce, 2004) has also recently been completed. In this work, standard ASTM E1820 fracture toughness specimens machined from sintered pucks of PTFE were tested at four test temperatures and at a range of test rates to determine the J _Ic and J resistance curve characteristics of the PTFE material. The major results are that while crack extension is difficult at standard laboratory loading rates at ambient (21 °C) temperature or above, for temperatures slightly below ambient or for elevated loading rates, a rapid degradation of fracture resistance occurs and cracking occurs in a ductile or even nearly brittle manner.     

Prediction of the Brittle Fracture Toughness of Neutron-Irradiated Reactor Pressure-Vessel Steels. Part 1

The irradiation effect on the temperature dependence of the brittle fracture toughness of reactor pressure-vessel steels is simulated using the probabilistic model for the fracture-toughness prediction, which was proposed by the authors earlier. The paper analyzes the irradiation effect on the parameters controlling the plastic deformation and brittle fracture of reactor pressure-vessel steels. We consider the mechanisms of microcrack nucleation in nonirradiated, irradiated, and post-irradiation-annealed reactor pressure-vessel steels.     

Fracture resistance of 8 mol% yttria stabilized zirconia

Anin situ technique for the assessment of fracture resistance employing double cantilever beam (DCB) specimens was developed in the present study. The side-grooved DCB specimens were loaded with pure bending moments in a specially designed and fabricated test fixture which went inside the specimen chamber of a scanning electron microscope. The study as conducted on a 8 mol% fully stabilized cubic phase yttria (Y₂O₃) stabilized zirconia (YSZ) ceramic. The powder processed sheets were sintered at 1600°C for 2 h in a zirconia tube furnace. The mode I applied energy release rate, G_I was determined for both pure YSZ and treated YSZ. Two sets of experiments were conducted for the complete characterization of the ceramics. Three fracture toughness values were determined for the pure and treated ceramics, viz. (i) at the onset of the crack initiation,G _ic, (ii) at the arrest of a subcritical crack, G_ia and (iii) at the onset of the fast fracture,G _if. Two analyses of the experimental data were carried out, viz. method of extrapolation and statistical analysis. In case of the pure YSZ, a transgranular mode of the stable crack growth was identified to be predominant. The porous coating treatment appeared to have positive effects as the crack initiation resistance increased due to electrode layers. The stable crack growth behaviours of the ceramics were investigated by monitoring the crack growth velocity as a function of appliedG values. The results obtained were of direct significance in designing and fabrication of SOFC stacks.