Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY-JMR&T
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages 1343-1355Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmrt.2021.01.094
Keywords
Carbo-austempered; Bainitic transformation; Wear; Twin-disc test; Nanobainitic; Retained austenite
Funding
- CODI-Universidad de Antioquia [PRG2017-15869]
- National Center for Metallurgical Research -CENIM
- Tribology and Surfaces Laboratory at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin
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Carbo-austempered steels with a nanobainitic microstructure are established as a promising alternative for applications requiring high stability and reliability against wear and fatigue. The study examined the effect of heat treatment conditions on the wear behavior of carburized cast steel with a nanobainitic structure, showing that nanobainitic microstructures exhibit better wear resistance compared to conventional tempered martensite plus retained austenite microstructures.
Carbo-austempered steels with a nanobainitic microstructure in the case are established as an exciting alternative in applications demanding high stability and reliability against wear and fatigue. In this work, the effect of heat treatment conditions, i.e. austenitizing and isothermal transformation temperatures, on the wear behavior under rolling/sliding conditions of a carburized cast steel with a nanobainitic structure in the surface was examined. The results show that wear damage is mainly due to contact fatigue, with a small extent of oxidative wear, abrasion and adhesion. The results were compared with the conventional tempered martensite plus retained austenite microstructure obtained by means of carburizing followed by quenching and tempering. The nanobainitic microstructures show a better wear resistance than the quenched and tempered microstructures. Also, the specific wear rate in carbo-austempered steels was lower as the isothermal heat treatment temperature decreased. Results are explained in terms of the microstructural differences, hardening behavior and plasticity of the materials under study. (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Carbo-austempered steels with a nanobainitic microstructure in the case are established as an exciting alternative in applications demanding high stability and reliability against wear and fatigue. In this work, the effect of heat treatment conditions, i.e. austenitizing and isothermal transformation temperatures, on the wear behavior under rolling/sliding conditions of a carburized cast steel with a nanobainitic structure in the surface was examined. The results show that wear damage is mainly due to contact fatigue, with a small extent of oxidative wear, abrasion and adhesion. The results were compared with the conventional tempered martensite plus retained austenite microstructure obtained by means of carburizing followed by quenching and tempering. The nanobainitic microstructures show a better wear resistance than the quenched and tempered microstructures. Also, the specific wear rate in carbo-austempered steels was lower as the isothermal heat treatment temperature decreased. Results are explained in terms of the microstructural differences, hardening behavior and plasticity of the materials under study. ? 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC
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