加速冷却对热轧C－Mn钢力学性能的影响

三种试验用Ｃ－Ｍｎ钢热轧及轧后的加速冷却实验表明，典型组织为多边形铁素体＋粒状贝氏体；这种组织不会恶化钢材的塑性指标；贝氏体相变强化效果远高于各种组织因加速冷却而产生的自身强化效果。     

Retained austenite and mechanical properties in bainite transformed low alloy steels

Uniform ductility and formability of low alloy steels can be improved by the transformation plasticity effect of metastable retained austenite. In this work, intercritical annealing followed by bainite transformation resulted in the retention of austenite with sufficient stability for transformation plasticity interactions. The effect of retained austenite on mechanical properties was studied in two low-alloy steels. Bainite transformation was carried out in the range of 400 to 500°C. The strength properties (yield strength and ultimate tensile strength) were more sensitive to bainite isothermal transformation temperature than holding time. Maximum strength properties were obtained for the lower transformation temperatures. On the other hand, high uniform and total elongation values were obtained at lower transformation temperatures but were sensitive to bainite isothermal transformation time. Variations in uniform elongation with holding time were linked to variations in retained austenite stability. Maximum values of uniform elongation occurred at the same holding times as the maximum amount of retained austenite. The same was true for total elongation and ultimate tensile strength. The above results indicate a strong correlation between retained austenite stability and uniform ductility and suggest that further optimisation regarding chemical composition and processing with respect to austenite stabilisation may lead to a new class of triple-phase high-strength high-formability low-alloy steels.     

等温时间对低硅含铝热轧TRIP钢组织性能的影响

 为了实现低硅含铝热轧TRIP钢的工业应用，以低硅含铝热轧TRIP钢为研究对象，采用扫描电子显微镜、透射电子显微镜、拉伸试验和X射线衍射等试验方法，研究了不同等温时间对试验钢显微组织和力学性能的影响。结果表明，试验钢的显微组织主要由多边形铁素体、贝氏体铁素体和残余奥氏体组成，随着等温时间的增加，板条贝氏体的体积分数升高，粒状贝氏体的体积分数降低；当等温时间为20 min时，试验钢的综合力学性能最佳，抗拉强度为732.25 MPa，断后伸长率为36%，强塑积为26.36 GPa·%；残余奥氏体的体积分数和碳含量先升高后降低，等温时间为20 min时试验钢表现出较强的加工硬化行为。     

Effect of copper on microstructure and strength and ductility of low alloy wear resistance steel

The effect of copper on the microstructure and strength and ductility of low alloy wear resistance steels without copper and copper bearing was studied. The CCT curve was calculated by JmatPro software. The microstructure was analyzed by OM and TEM and the mechanical properties and ductility were tested by universal tensile testing machine and impact testing machine. The results show that the element of copper increases the stability of austenite and the transformation of ferrite and pearlite is postponed for the copper bearing steel. The microstructure is composed of matensite and lower bainite for the experimental steels and the content of martensite of the steel bearing copper is higher than the steel without copper. There are nano- size precipitations of (Nb,Ti)C and (Nb,Ti,Mo)C in the matrix of the two steels. The yield strength and the impact energy at -60?? of the steel with 0. 49 mass% copper is higher than that of the steel without copper. The element of copper is benefit to improve strength and low temperature ductility for the low alloy resistant steel.     

经济型铁素体/贝氏体高扩孔钢的组织与性能

 通过TMCP工艺实验,研究了Si、Mn含量对低碳Si Mn钢显微组织、力学及成形性能的影响,探讨了铁素体/贝氏体双相钢(FB钢)在扩孔过程中的裂纹形成及扩展行为。研究结果表明,增加Si含量,实验钢中等轴铁素体的体积分数增加,扩孔性能得到改善;而增加Mn含量,实验钢的强度和韧性显著提高,但塑性和扩孔性能有所下降。FB钢中的裂纹扩展主要是以微孔聚集机制进行,当遇到贝氏体时,裂纹通过铁素体 贝氏体相界面并剪断铁素体进行扩展。合理选择Si、Mn含量和TMCP工艺参数,可以获得690 MPa级的经济型热轧FB高扩孔钢,扩孔率达到了95%,综合性能较好。     

含铌微合金化热轧多相钢的控轧控冷工艺

通过热轧试验研究了两阶段轧制+层流冷却、空冷、超快冷的TMCP工艺对高硅铌钢、高硅Nb-Ti钢、低硅Nb-Ti钢显微组织和力学性能的影响。结果表明,控轧控冷后的试验钢含有铁素体、贝氏体、马氏体以及少量残余奥氏体的混合组织。在控轧控冷工艺参数相近的情况下,高硅铌钢、高硅Nb-Ti钢、低硅Nb-Ti钢的抗拉强度依次减小,其伸长率和强塑积依次增大。低硅Nb-Ti钢的伸长率和强塑积分别达到了41%、25 256 MPa.%的最大值。     

Effect of Sb,P, Sn and B on the microstructure and creep properties of normalized and tempered 1.25 Cr−0.5 Mo Steels

A program to study the effect of Sb, P, Sn and B on creep properties of four normalized and tempered 1.25 Cr−0.5 Mo steels at 538°C (1000°F) has been completed. Results show that even a combined addition of large amounts of Sb, P and Sn does not affect short time creep strength or ductility of the steel at 538°C (1000°F). Addition of B resulted in an increase or decrease of creep strength depending on the nature of the impurity species present, presumably due to B-impurity interactions. Regardless of the effect on creep strength, B additions caused sharp reductions in rupture ductility in all cases. Comparison of the present results on the four laboratory steels (100 pct bainite) with results of a previous study on a commercial steel (60 pct bainite + 40 pct ferrite) show that the effect of microstructure becomes negligible and rupture strength values of the various steels at 538°C (1000°F) approach each other at rupture times in excess of 10⁴ h.     

Mechanical properties of 0.40 pct C-Ni-Cr-Mo high strength steel having a mixed structure of martensite and bainite

A study has been systematically made of the effect of bainite on the mechanical properties of a commercial Japanese 0.40 pct C-Ni-Cr-Mo high strength steel (AISI 4340 type) having a mixed structure of martensite and bainite. Isothermal transformation of lower bainite at 593 K, which appeared in acicular form and partitioned prior austenite grains, in association with tempered marprovided provided a better combination of strength and fracture ductility, improving true notch tensile strength (TNTS) and fracture appearance transition temperature (FATT) in Charpy impact tests. This occurred regardless of the volume fraction of lower bainite present and/or the tempering conditions employed to create a difference in strength between the two phases. Upper bainite which was isothermally transformed at 673 K appeared as masses that filled prior austenite grains and had a very detrimental effect on the strength and fracture ductility of the steel. Significant damage occurred to TNTS and FATT, irrespective of the volume fraction of upper bainite present and/or the tempering conditions employed when the upper bainite was associated with tempered martensite. However, when the above two types of bainite appeared in the same size, shape, and distribution within tempered martensite approximately equalized to the strength of the bainite, a similar trend or a marked similarity was observed between the tensile properties of the mixed structures and the volume fraction of bainite. From the above results, it is assumed that the mechanical properties of high strength steels having a mixed structure of martensite and bainite are affected more strongly by the size, shape, and distribution of bainite within martensite than by the difference in strength between martensite and bainite or by the type of mixed bainite present. The remarkable effects of the size, shape, and distribution of bainite within martensite on the mechanical properties of the steel are briefly discussed in terms of the modified law of mixtures, metallographic examinations, and the analyses of stress-strain diagrams.     

Effect of Sb, P, Sn and B on the microstructure and creep properties of normalized and tempered 1.25 Cr-0.5 Mo steels

A program to study the effect of Sb, P, Sn and B on creep properties of four normalized and tempered 1.25 Cr-0.5 Mo steels at 538°C (1000°F) has been completed. Results show that even a combined addition of large amounts of Sb, P and Sn does not affect short time creep strength or ductility of the steel at 538°C (1000°F). Addition of B resulted in an increase or decrease of creep strength depending on the nature of the impurity species present, presumably due to B-impurity interactions. Regardless of the effect on creep strength, B additions caused sharp reductions in rupture ductility in all cases. Comparison of the present results on the four laboratory steels (100 pct bainite) with results of a previous study on a commercial steel (60 pct bainite + 40 pct ferrite) show that the effect of microstructure becomes negligible and rupture strength values of the various steels at 538°C (1000°F) approach each other at rupture times in excess of 10⁴ h.     

Recent Development of Air-Cooled Bainitic Steels Containing Manganese

The superiorities of air-cooled bainitic steels were described. A series of air-cooled bainitic steels containing manganese were developed and presented, which include low carbon granular bainitic steels, low carbon grain-boundary allotriomorphic ferrite/granular bainite dual phase steels, medium and medium high carbon bainite/martensite dual phase steel, low carbon carbide free bainite/martensite dual phase steels and casting bainitic steels.The development of ultra-low carbon bainitic steels in China was also introduced.     

Tempering of Mn and Mn-Si-V Dual-Phase Steels

Changes in the yield behavior, strength, and ductility of a Mn and a Mn-Si-V dual-phase (ferrite-martensite) steel were investigated after tempering one hour at 200 to 600 °C. The change in yield behavior was complex in both steels with the yield strength first increasing and then decreasing as the tempering temperature was increased. This complex behavior is attributed to a combination of factors including carbon segregation to dislocations, a return of discontinuous yielding, and the relief of residual stresses. In contrast, the tensile strength decreased continuously as the tempering temperature was increased in a manner that could be predicted from the change in hardness of the martensite phase using a simple composite strengthening model. The initial tensile ductility (total elongation) of the Mn-Si-V steel was much greater than that of the Mn steel. However, upon tempering up to 400 °C, the ductility of the Mn-Si-V decreased whereas that of the Mn steel increased. As a result, both steels had similar ductilities after tempering at 400 °C or higher temperatures. These results are attributed to the larger amounts of retained austenite in the Mn-Si-V steel (9 pct) compared to the Mn steel (3 pct) and its contribution to tensile ductility by transforming to martensite during plastic straining. Upon tempering at 400 °C, the retained austenite decomposes to bainite and its contribution to tensile ductility is eliminated.     

Titanium microalloyed steels

Compared with niobium and vanadium, titanium has been regarded as a relative minor element in microalloyed (MA) steels. More recently, titanium compounds in MA steels have been recognised as having a wider role than just involved in austenite grain refinement. A brief history is followed by considering the physical state of titanium and its compounds characterized in MA steels. Their solubility in iron and the morphology of the precipitates they form, lead to their functions in controlling mechanical and toughness properties of MA steels often involving the multiple alloying with niobium, vanadium, carbon and nitrogen. Titanium has become an important element in the development of linepipe steels, which can develop bainite/acicular ferrite (AF) microstructures. The influence of Ti on nucleation of AF is an active research area, particularly in welding of MA steels. Finally, the influence of titanium on hot ductility, continuous casting and thin slab direct-charging processes is discussed.     

The time-temperature-transformation diagram within the medium temperature range in some alloy steels

Time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagrams within the medium temperature range of some alloy steels have usually been found to be composed of three separate kinds of C-curves for low-carbon alloy steels. The microstructure associated with one of three kinds of C-curves is a granular structure which is nonbainite, upper bainite, or lower bainite, depending on the higher, middle, or lower location of the C-curve in the TTT diagrams. On the other hand, only two types of C-curves can be established for the alloy steels of middle and high carbon content, and the category of microstructures (upper bainite and lower bainite) corresponding to each C-curve also depends on the location of the C-curve. Meta-upper bainite, or alternatively, carbide-free bainite, and meta-lower bainite and/or the mixture of them can often be obtained in some alloy steels containing silicon. Each type of microstructure still possesses its own overall transformation activation energy, Q*, and morphological exponent, n. A considerably detailed analysis has suggested some differences among the transformation mechanisms of granular structure, upper bainite, and lower bainite.     

含铌抗大变形管线钢奥氏体的连续冷却转变

The CCT behaviors of two bearing Nb polygonal ferrite-bainite high strength and high-deformability pipeline steels were studied in undeformed condition, The static CCT curves were constructed. The static CCT curves, microstructures and microhardness of two experimental steels were compared. It was found that microstructures of these steels contain polygonal ferrite, pearlite, bainite as cooling rate from 0.0278 to 42.5�桤s-1; Addition of Nb in the steel retards polygonal ferrite and granular bainite transformation, suppresses ferrite growth and refine ferrite grain, makes transformation line of bainite right shift, narrows the range of cooling rate of ferrite transformation, raises start temperature of ferrite and banite transformation; ferrite transformation zone is narrowed and the bainite transformation zone is expanded with increasing of Nb.     

Tempering of Mn and Mn-Si-V dual-phase steels

Changes in the yield behavior, strength, and ductility of a Mn and a Mn-Si-V d11Al-phase (ferrite-martensite) steel were investigated after tempering one hour at 200 to 600 °C. The change in yield behavior was complex in both steels with the yield strength first increasing and then decreasing as the tempering temperature was increased. This complex behavior is attributed to a combination of factors including carbon segregation to dislocations, a return of discontinuous yielding, and the relief of resid11Al stresses. In contrast, the tensile strength decreased continuously as the tempering temperature was increased in a manner that could be predicted from the change in hardness of the martensite phase using a simple composite strengthening model. The initial tensile ductility (total elongation) of the Mn-Si-V steel was much greater than that of the Mn steel. However, upon tempering up to 400 °C, the ductility of the Mn-Si-V decreased whereas that of the Mn steel increased. As a result, both steels had similar ductilities after tempering at 400 °C or higher temperatures. These results are attributed to the larger amounts of retained austenite in the Mn-Si-V steel (9 pct) compared to the Mn steel (3 pct) and its contribution to tensile ductility by transforming to martensite during plastic straining. Upon tempering at 400 °C, the retained austenite decomposes to bainite and its contribution to tensile ductility is eliminated. This paper is based on a presentation made at the “pcter G. Winchell Symposium on Tempering of Steel” held at the Louisville Meeting of The Metallurgical Society of AIME, October 12-13, 1981, under the sponsorship of the TMS-AIME Ferrous Metallurgy and Heat Treatment Committees.     

Effects of Ni on microstructures and properties of high carbon nano- structured bainite steels

Two bainite steels with and without Ni were designed and austempering treatments at different temperatures were conducted. The purpose is to study the effects of Ni on the transformation behavior, microstructure and properties of austempered nano- structured bainite steels. The results show that Ni addition decreases the bainite transformation driving force during austempering treatment, and consequently decreases the bainite amount. Besides, Ni addition moves the TTT curve towards right and decreases the transformation kinetics of isothermal bainite transformation. This is different from the effect of Ni during continuous cooling. In addition, Ni addition increases the impact property after austempering treatment, but the tensile property decreases with Ni addition due to the decrease in bainite amount and the increase in retained austenite amount. Moreover, the product of strength and elongation increases slightly with the increase in transformation temperature in both Ni free and Ni added steels.     

Tensile deformation behavior of high strength anti-seismic steel with multi-phase microstructure

To investigate the tensile deformation behavior of high strength anti-seismic steel with multi-phase micro-structure, tensile tests with strains of 0.05, 0.12 and 0.22 were performed at room temperature.Micro-structure of tested steels was observed by means of optical microscopy (OM), transmission electron mi-croscopy (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).Tensile mechanical properties of tested steels were obtained, and the influence of bainite content on deformation behavior was also discussed.Mean-while, the deformation mechanism of steel with three kinds of microstructures of bainite, pearlite and fer-rite was analyzed.Results show that tested steel with high volume fraction of bainite exhibits a continuous deformation behavior, and this may be attributed to a higher bainite volume fraction and a lower mobile dislocation density.The morphology of microstructure will influence the mechanical properties of tested steels.An increasing content of bainite can improve the tensile strength, but reduce the plasticity and toughness of the tested steels.In the deformation process of 0.039Nb steel, the ferrite and bainite have priorities to deform, and the deformation exhibits co-deformation of all microstructures in the later stage of deformation.In the deformation process of 0.024Nb-0.032V steel, the ferrite and pearlite have priori-ties to deform, and the deformation exhibits co-deformation of all microstructures in the later stage of de-formation.     

两相区位错增殖对低碳贝氏体/铁素体复相钢组织和性能的影响

利用扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、透射电子显微镜(TEM)、电子探针(EPMA)、X射线衍射仪(XRD)、室温拉伸等手段, 通过两相区保温-淬火(IQ)、两相区形变后保温-淬火(DIQ)、两相区保温-淬火-配分-贝氏体区等温(IQ&PB)及两相区形变后保温-淬火-配分-贝氏体区等温(DIQ&PB)热处理工艺, 研究高温形变对室温组织、性能、残余奥氏体稳定性的综合影响作用.结果表明, 经15%的压缩形变后铁素体中位错密度由0.290×1014增加至1.286×1014 m-2, 马氏体(原奥氏体)中C、Cu元素富集浓度提高, 高温形变产生位错增殖对元素配分有明显促进作用.DIQ&PB工艺下, 形变后贝氏体板条尺寸变短且宽度增加0.1 μm左右, 贝氏体转变量较未变形时增加14%, 多边形铁素体尺寸明显减小.力学性能方面, 两相区形变热处理后抗拉强度增加132.85 MPa, 断后伸长率增加7%, 强塑积可达25435 MPa·%.形变后残余奥氏体体积分数由7.8%提高到8.99%, 残余奥氏体中碳质量分数由1.05%提高到1.31%.      

低,中碳合金钢中的马氏体与贝氏体形态

低，中碳合金钢中的马氏体除局部区域因成分偏析呈孪晶亚结构外，主要是位错亚结构外，主要是位错亚结构的板条马氏体。低碳合金钢的中温转变组织主要有三类，即粒状组织，上贝氏体和下贝低体。其中上贝氏体又分为粒状贝氏体，准上贝氏体和曲型上贝氏体；下贝氏又有准下贝氏，变态下贝氏体和典型下贝氏体。中碳合金钢的中温转变组织只有上，下贝氏体。其中上贝氏体又分为准上贝氏体和典型上贝氏体，而下贝氏体则包括准下贝氏体，...     

Continuously Cooled Ultrafine Bainitic Steel with Excellent Strength–Elongation Combination

Serious efforts have been made to simultaneously improve the strength and ductility of steels for different applications. However, steel with the ultimate tensile strength (UTS) above 1200 MPa with minimum elongation of 20 pct is still difficult to produce. In the current work, an effort has been made to design such a steel that could be directly produced in any hot strip mill, after accelerated cooling on the runout table followed by coiling. Basically this steel consisted of C, Mn, Si, and Cr and the intended final microstructure at room temperature was about 80 pct carbide-free bainite and 20 pct retained austenite. The steel was exposed to a thermal treatment which is generally experienced by a hot strip coil. This newly developed steel possesses an UTS of minimum ~1370 MPa with minimum ~21 pct elongation. The combination of such encouraging mechanical properties can be primarily attributed to the formation of ultrafine bainite plates (~100 to 130 nm) and a high density of dislocations arising out of the bainitic transformation. The presence of sufficient quantity of retained austenite (minimum 21 pct) in the final microstructure could be the reason for the attainment of outstanding ductility values at such a high strength level.