Microstructure and mechanical properties of Nb-B bearing low carbon steel plate: Ultrafast cooling <Emphasis Type="Italic">versus</Emphasis> accelerated cooling

The microstructure and mechanical properties of low carbon bainite high strength steel plate were studied via different cooling paths at the pilot scale. There was a significant increase in mechanical properties, and notably, the yield strength, tensile strength, and toughness at -40 °C for the tested steel processed by ultra-fast cooling were 126 MPa, 98 MPa and 69 J, respectively, in relation to steel processed by accelerated cooling. The ultra-fast cooling rate not only refined the microstructure, precipitates, and martensiteaustenite (M/A) islands, but also contributed to the refinement of microstructure in thick plates. The large size M/A constituents formed at lower cooling rate experienced stress concentration and were potential sites for crack initiation, which led to deterioration of low-temperature impact toughness. In contrast, the acicular ferrite and lath bainite with high fraction of high-angle grain boundaries were formed in steel processed by ultra-fast cooling, which retarded cleavage crack propagation.     

Microstructure and mechanical properties of FGBA/BG air cooling bainitic steels containing niobium

The effect of different Nb additions on the mechanical properties and microstructure evolution of grain boundary allotriomorphic ferrite(F_(GBA)) / granular bainite(B_G) air cooling bainitic steels was investigated.The results indicate that the tensile strength and yield strength increase by 157 and 97 MPa,respectively with the addition of 0.02wt%Nb.The steel acquires superior strength and toughness with the addition of 0.06wt%Nb.The results of scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron micro...     

低合金耐磨钢的组织与性能

低成本、高性能耐磨钢的需求增长及其开发都在进行中．本研究根据对耐磨钢性能的要求,试制了三种不同合金化方式的低合金耐磨钢,利用金相显微镜、透射电子显微镜、洛氏硬度计、万能材料试验机、夏氏冲击试验机和磨粒磨损实验机研究了其组织和性能,讨论了它们问的关系．结果表明：0．25C钢经不同工艺热处理后均获得了马氏体组织,并发生不同程度的自回火现象,硬度均大于45HRC,屈服强度大于1000MPa,抗拉强度大于1500MPa,并具有一定的塑性和韧性;在860℃淬火或920℃淬火并250℃回火后,实验钢的硬度、强度、塑性和韧性有最佳的配合,耐磨性最佳;V微合金化对钢的组织和性能没有明显影响．0．33C钢860℃或920℃奥氏体化后以等于或大于2．0％／s的冷速连续冷却或风冷至室温,回火或不回火即可得到由贝氏体与马氏体组成的混合组织,硬度超过50HRC,屈服强度大于900MPa,抗拉强度大于1500MPa,有一定的塑性和韧性,耐磨性良好,与商用淬火一回火耐磨钢类似;但由于具有高的加工硬化能力和良好的冲击韧性,在冲击条件下的耐磨性会优于商用钢．不同工艺热处理后的试验钢的磨损率随砂纸粒度和载荷增大而增大,载荷的影响较大,而磨粒的影响较小．     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">In-situ</Emphasis> investigation on the fatigue crack propagation behavior in ferrite-pearlite and dual-phase ferrite-bainite low carbon steels

The purpose of this study was to describe the roles of microstructure types and grain boundary characteristics in fatigue crack propagation behavior in ferrite-pearlite steel and ferrite-bainite steel.The ferrite-bainite dual-phase steel was obtained by intermediate heat treatment conducted on ferrite-pearlite low carbon steel.This paper presents the results from investigation using constant stress-controlled fatigue tests with in-situ scanning electron microscopy(SEM),electron backscattering diffraction(EBSD) and fatigue fractography analysis.Microscopic images arrested by in-situ SEM showed that the second hard bainite phase distributed in the soft ferrite matrix had a significant effect on preventing the cracks opening compared with pearlite,and that the cracks in ferrite-bainite steel were "locked" in the second hard bainite phase while the crack propagation path in ferrite-pearlite steel was more tortuous.Moreover,the fatigue fracture surface analysis and the coincidence site lattice(CSL) obtained by EBSD indicated that low-CSL grain boundaries in ferrite-bainite steel distributed more uniformly,which has a more significant effect on the resistance of crack propagation.It was revealed that ferrite-bainite dual-phase microstructures could inhibit the fatigue crack propagation more effectively than ferrite-pearlite microstructures.     

700MPa级超低碳高强度贝氏体厚钢板的晶粒细化机制研究

根据超低碳微合金化的成分设计意图,采用控制轧制和控制冷却工艺得到细化的贝氏体组织,利用光学显微镜、FE-SEM和TEM对各类微观组织和析出物进行了研究和分析。结果表明,700MPa级超低碳贝氏体厚钢板为细小均匀的粒状贝氏体和少量针状铁素体与多边形铁素体的复合组织,其屈服强度不小于580MPa,抗拉强度不小于700MPa,低温冲击韧性为-20℃,Akv不小于150J。钢板具有强度高、韧性好和焊接性能良好的特点,其强度和韧性的良好匹配主要是由于在粒状贝氏体相变前形成了少量的针状铁素体分割奥氏体晶粒,从而细化了最终的复合组织。     

高扩孔型铁素体/贝氏体双相钢组织性能研究

对540MPa级铁素体/贝氏体双相钢的组织性能进行分析研究。结果表明,试验钢的显微组织为85%左右的铁素体加上15%左右的贝氏体;铁素体晶粒尺寸细小,基体中有较高的位错密度和大量细小弥散的析出物;贝氏体在铁素体基体上分布均匀,以板条状为主,板条间分布有较多碳化物颗粒。通过合适的成分设计和控轧控冷手段获得的铁素体/贝氏体双相钢组织形态,可较好地保证材料所需的强度-拉伸凸缘性能匹配。     

Microstructures and properties of 550 MPa grade high strength thin-walled H-beam steel

The microstructures and mechanical properties of 550 MPa grade lightweight high strength thin-walled H-beam steel were experimentally studied. The experimental results show that the microstructure of the air-cooled H-beam steel sample is consisted of ferrite, pearlite and a small amount of granular bainites as well as fine and dispersive V（C,N） precipitates. The microstructure of the water-cooled steel sample is consisted of ferrite and bainite as well as a small amount of fine pearlites. The microstructure of the water-cooled sample is finer than that of the air-cooled sample with the average intercept size of the surface grains reaching to 3.5 gna. The finish rolling temperature of the thin-walled high strength H-beam steel is in the range of 750 ~C-850 ~C. The lower the finish rolling temperature and the faster the cooling rate, the finer the ferrite grains, the volume fraction of bainite is increased through water cooling process. Grain refinement strengthening and precipitation strengthening are used as major strengthening means to develop 550 MPa grade lightweight high strength thin- walled H-beam steel. Vanadium partially soluted in the matrix and contributes to the solution strengthening. The 550 MPa grade high-strength thin-walled H-beam steel could be developed by direct air cooling after hot rolling to fully meet the requirements of the target properties.     

由改善显微组织形态提高钢件疲劳寿命

本文探讨研究由改善显微组织形态提高调质高强度钢件疲劳寿命的可能性及相应的机理和途径。实验研究发现,通过改善显微组织到预想的状态,使调质高强度钢应力场强度因子范围门槛值稍有增高,疲劳裂纹扩展速率减低,疲劳寿命明显提高。分析认为,对疲劳寿命的提高是依据作者对改善调质高强度钢强韧化机理和途径的论点而合理设计热处理工艺,使这种钢晶粒显著细化,碳化物颗粒极为细小而均匀以及基体韧化的结果。这种组织形态具有阻碍疲劳裂纹扩展、减小应力集中和阻碍新裂纹的产生等作用,是提高疲劳寿命的重要原因。对改善调质态钢的强韧性和提高疲劳抗力的机理和途径作了分析探讨。     

NR360耐磨钢板手工电弧焊接头的组织与性能

研究了高强度耐磨钢板NR360的焊接接头组织和力学性能,结果表明,焊缝组织主要为块状或针状铁素体,热影响区组织分布比较均匀,主要为细小板条贝氏体与少量马氏体,熔合区结合良好。热影响区和NR360钢板本体硬度相近。NR360耐磨钢板焊接接头具有良好的强韧性。     

Effect of cooling parameters on the microstructure and properties of Mobearing and Cr-bearing steels

To develop low-cost low carbon bainitic steel,Mo-bearing and Cr-bearing steels were melted in a vacuum induction furnace and were researched by thermal simulation and hot rolling at the laboratory.As the cooling rate increases from 0.2 to 50℃/s,the transformation temperatures of two steels lie between 650 and 400℃,and the final microstructures of them change from quasi-polygonal ferrite and granular bainite to lath bainite.Compared with cooling in air or by interrupted cooling,Mo-bearing and Cr-bearing steel plates cooled by sprayed water boast higher strength and superior toughness,for large-size islands are responsible for the poor mechanical properties.Compared to Mo,Cr is effective to isolate the bainitic reaction in low carbon steel,and the bainitic microstructure can also be obtained in Cr-bearing steel cooled at a wide range of cooling rate.     

冷却速率对一种建筑用双相不锈钢组织和性能的影响

为了分析一种新型建筑材料00Cr25Ni5Mo3N双相不锈钢在淬火过程中的开裂原因,通过改变冷却方式研究了冷却速率对双相不锈钢组织和强韧性的影响,并通过数值模拟技术研究了冷却速率对双相不锈钢淬火应力的影响.结果表明,冷却速率对双相不锈钢强度的影响不大,而随着冷却速率的降低,其塑性和韧性呈现出明显降低趋势,而塑性和韧性的降低是σ相的析出所导致的.降低冷却速率和提高终冷温度能够有效降低淬火应力,进而降低材料的开裂倾向.     

Microstructures and mechanical properties of a new titanium alloy for surgical implant application

A new titanium alloy Ti12.5Zr2.5Nb2.5Ta(TZNT) for surgical implant application was synthesized and fully annealed at 700℃for 45 min.The microstructure and the mechanical properties such as tensile properties and fatigue properties were investigated.The results show that TZNT mainly consists of a lot of lamellaα-phase clusters with different orientations distributed in the originalβ-phase grain boundaries and a small amount ofβphases between the lamella a phases.The alloy exhibits better ductility,lower m...     

16Mn钢焊接件疲劳裂纹萌生与扩展机理研究

对16Mn钢对焊接头的焊缝及热影响区中疲劳裂纹的萌生与扩展机理进行了研究与讨论,结果发现：疲劳裂纹的萌生与扩展与铁素体组织有关,疲劳裂纹扩展阶段裂纹尖端附近为形成于铁素体晶粒内的位错胞及亚晶,在离裂纹尖端较远处为高密度的位错缠结。     

Effective Microstructure Unit in Control of Impact Toughness in CGHAZ for High Strength Bridge Steel

The high strength bridge steel was processed with the simulated coarse grain heat affected zone(CGHAZ) thermal cycle with heat input varying from 30 to 60 kJ/cm, the microstructures were investigated by means of optical microscope(OM), scanning electron microscope(SEM), electron backscattering diffraction(EBSD) and transmission electron microscope(TEM), and the impact properties were evaluated from the welding thermal cycle treated samples. The results indicate that the microstructure is primarily composed of lath bainite. With decreasing heat input, both bainite packet and block are significantly refined, and the toughness has an increasing tendency due to the grain refinement. The fracture surfaces all present cleavage or fracture for the samples with different heat inputs. Moreover, the average cleavage facet size for the CGHAZ is nearly equal to the average bainite packet size and the bainitic packet boundary can strongly impede the crack propagation, indicating that the bainitic packet is the most effective unit in control of impact toughness in the simulated CGHAZ of high strength bridge steel.     

A Special TMCP Used to Develop a 800MPa Grade HSLA Steel

The effect of relaxation after finished rolling on structures and properties of four microalloyed steel with different content of Nb and Ti was investigated. By alloy designing and control rolling + relaxation-precipitation-control phase transformation (RPC) process, a new 800 MPa grade HSLA plate steel could be obtained, the microstructure is composite ultra- fine lath bainite/martensite. The tempering process and mechanical properties of this kind of HSLA steel were investigated. The yield strength can achieve 800 MPa, and the ductility and impact toughness is satisfied.     

热轧TRIP钢的组织与力学性能研究

采用热轧后控制冷却的工艺制备了TRIP钢，拉伸试验表明，试验钢的性能为：σb=605 MPa，σs=440 MPa，δ=28．4％；对试验钢的组织进行了研究，定量金相检测结果表明，试验钢中残余奥氏体含量为5．6％．     

Controlled rolling and cooling process for low carbon cold forging steel

Effect of controlled rolling and cooling process on the mechanical properties of low carbon cold forging steel was investigated for different processing parameters of a laboratory hot rolling mill. The results show that the specimens with fast cooling after hot rolling exhibit very good mechanical properties, and the improvement of the mechanical properties can be attributed mainly to the ferrite-grain refinement. The mechanical properties increase with decreasing final cooling temperature within the range from 670 °C to 570 °C due to the finer interlamellar spacing of pearlite colony. The specimen with fast cooling after low temperature rolling shows the highest values of the mechanical properties. The effect of the ferrite grain size on the mechanical properties was greater than that of pearlite morphology in the present study. The mechanical properties of specimens by controlled rolling and cooling process without thermal treatment were greatly superior to that of the same specimens by the conventional rolling, and their tensile strength reached 490 MPa grade even in the case of low temperature rolling without controlled rolling. It might be expected to realize the substitution medium-carbon by low-carbon for 490 MPa grade cold forging steel with controlled rolling and cooling process.     

Effect of crystallization of CaO—P2O5—SiO2—MgO—F^— glass—ceramics on its mechanical properties

The microstructure of CaO-P2O5-SiO2-MgO-F glass-ceramics during crystallization were investigated and the crystallized phases were identified with DTA(Differential Thermal Analysis),SEM(Scanning Electron Microscope) and XRD(X-ray Diffraction) techniques,The mechanical properties such as bending strength and fracture toughness,as well as their changes with advancing crystallization were determined.The results show that the changes of the mechanical properties are correlated with the microstructures,The sample heated up to 810℃ and soaked for 4h has smaller crystalline size and less volum fraction of fluorophlogopite,so it has higher bending strength (about 190MPa),and higher crack toughness(about 2.63 MPa.m^1/2).     

The Effects of Cooling Mode on the Properties of Ti–Nb Microalloyed High-strength Hot-rolled Steels

The industrial trials of two cooling modes, i e, water cooling in forepart + air cooling in later part(WAC) and air cooling in forepart + water cooling in later part(AWC), were carried out for a TiNb microalloyed steel. The average cooling rates and coiling temperature were the same for two modes. The continuous cooling transformation(CCT) curve of the tested steel was drawn. The effects of the cooling mode on the microstructure, precipitates, and properties of the steels were investigated. Results show that the strength of the steel in the WAC mode is significantly larger than that in the AWC mode, mainly because the smaller the grain size, the more and finer the grain precipitates. Therefore, when the average cooling rate is constant, the fast cooling in the forepart is an effective method to increase the strength of steels. However, the increase in the strength is accompanied by the decrease in toughness, so that the toughness of the steel should be considered when changing the cooling mode.     

Toughening mechanisms of a high-strength acicular ferrite steel heavy plate

An ultra-low carbon acicular ferrite steel heavy plate was obtained with an advanced thermo-mechanical control process-relaxed precipitation controlled transformation (TMCP-RPC) at Xiangtan Steel, Valin Group. The heavy plate has a tensile strength of approximately 600 MPa with a lower yield ratio. The impact toughness of the heavy plate achieves 280 J at ?40°C. The fine-grained mixed microstructures of the heavy plate mainly consist of acicular ferrite, granular bainite, and polygonal ferrite. The high str...