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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 660, Issue -, Pages 131-135Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.11.051
Keywords
Austempering; Bainite; Duplex structure; Orthogonal experiment; Color metallography
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- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) [2012AA03A503]
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This study aims to determine the optimum parameters of isothermal heat treatment process for a new bearing steel through orthogonal experiment method, and obtain improved mechanical properties of interest. Following the orthogonal experiment, a verification experiment with isothermal temperature lower than martensite start temperature was conducted, and microstructure evolution in isothermal process was investigated. The steel, produced by austenitizing at 880 degrees C for 0.5 h and isothermal holding at 200 degrees C for 6 h, has excellent combination of mechanical properties, at the same time has fine and uniform microstructure. Under the optimum heat treatment condition, the impact strength and the hardness value increase by 28.8% and 5.2% respectively, while the tensile strength only decreases by 3.7%, compared with those of the conventional process. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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