Journal
MATERIALS
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma15030867
Keywords
delamination; instrumented impact test; steels; ultrafine grained structure; toughening
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This paper investigates the methods to improve the balance of strength and toughness in steel materials, including delamination and grain refinement. Two different steel materials were prepared and tested. The results show that delamination is an effective method to enhance the low-temperature toughness of steel.
Improving the balance of strength and toughness in structural materials is an ongoing challenge. Delamination and grain refinement are some of the methods used to do this. In this paper, two different steels, 0.15% C-0.3% Si-1.5% Mn-Fe and 0.4% C-2% Si-1% Cr-1% Mo-Fe (mass %), were prepared. Two steel bars with an ultrafine elongated grain (UFEG) structure were fabricated via multipass warm caliber rolling. The UFEG steels were characterized by a strong //rolling-direction fiber texture. The transverse grain size, d(t), was 1.0 mu m for the low-carbon steel and 0.26 mu m for the medium-carbon steel. For comparison, conventional heat-treated steels were also fabricated. An instrumented Charpy impact test was performed, and the impact load (P) and deflection (u) during the test were recorded. The P-u relations at the test temperature at which delamination fracture occurred exhibited a unique curve. Delamination effectively enhances the low-temperature toughness, and this was characterized by a plateau region of constant load in the P-u curve. Assuming no delamination, two routes in the P-u curves, the ductile route and the brittle route, were proposed. The results showed that the proposed methods can be predicted by an energy curve for ultrafine grained steels. Delamination is a more effective method of enhancing toughness for ultra-high-strength steels.
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