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MATERIALS
卷 15, 期 20, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma15207354
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medium carbon steel; tempering; strain; microstructure; mechanical properties; dilatometry
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- ERDF Research of advanced steels with unique [CZ02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000836]
Strain assisted tempering technology can significantly improve the strength of spring steel, while also enhancing notch toughness, but reducing elongation and reduction of area. Acceptable values for these parameters can be achieved through process optimization.
Spring steels are typical materials where enhancement of mechanical properties can save considerable mass for transport vehicles, in this way the consumption of fuel or electric energy can be decreased. A drastic change in both the resulting microstructure and mechanical properties could be achieved due to the inclusion of strain into the tempering process after quenching. The strain assisted tempering (SAT) technology was applied, i.e., the process of quenching and following a sequence of tempering operations alternating with strain operations. After the first tempering, controlled deformation by rotary swaging was carried out with a strain of 17% (strain rate is about 120 s(-1)). Considerably higher strength parameters after SAT compared to conventional quenching and tempering (QT) technology were nevertheless accompanied by enhanced notch toughness at the same time by the decrease of elongation and reduction of area. However, by optimizing the process it is was also possible to achieve acceptable values for those parameters. Remarkable differences are visible in resulting microstructures of compared samples, which were revealed by metallographic analysis and X-ray diffraction measurement. While the standard microstructure of tempered martensite with transition carbides was observed after QT processing, carbideless islands with nanotwins occurred in martensitic laths after SAT processing.
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