武钢铁路车辆用耐候钢的开发

介绍了武钢生产的铁路车辆用耐候钢的特点，分析稀土对Cu—P系列耐候钢的作用机理，并介绍武钢正在开发的耐候钢新钢种。     

Activation Response of Martensitic Steels

A hypothetical martensitic steel has been compositionally designed in order to optimize both metallurgical and reduced activation properties. When compared with two other martensitic steels, its activation characteristics are shown to be superior for all activation indices examined. However, these excellent properties are found to be due to the assumed absence of deleterious tramp impurities. When limiting impurity concentrations are determined for the hypothetical steel, they are found to be extremely stringent, and wholly unachievable using industrial scale production methods. It is concluded that only slight improvements can be made to currently available low activation martensitic steels to reduce residual activity responses further.     

Effects of low-temperature aging on AISI 444 steel

The consequences of aging at 400 and 475 °C on the mechanical properties, corrosion resistance, and magnetic properties of the ferritic stainless steel (SS) AISI 444 were investigated. Age hardening was measured as a function of aging time at both temperatures and was found to be more intense at 475 °C. The localized corrosion susceptibility increased, while the impact toughness decreased with aging time. These two effects were also more important at 475 °C. Unlike duplex SSs, AISI 444 did not present any variation in coercive force or Curie temperature with aging time. The effects on the Mössbauer spectra were also determined and analyzed.     

Solving some key failure analysis problems using advanced methods for materials testing

A dilemma encountered in engineering practice is a proliferation of newly designed (mostly high-strength and/or corrosion-resistant) steels and alloys that are unusable in industry as they are highly susceptible to failure under operating conditions including environmentally assisted cracking. The problem of materials failure has several sources, the most significant of which is how engineers select which material to use in which industry. As a rule, selection is based solely on assessing the mechanical properties of materials with little or no consideration of how these mechanical properties will interface with specific operating parameters found within different industries. The functional design, selection and use of materials aimed at preventing in-service failures depends, therefore, on finding testing methods, standards and approaches appropriate to real operating conditions guided by analysis of material performance under those conditions.     

碳钢及低合金钢海水耐蚀性综合评价

为了分析研究碳钢和低合金钢在海洋环境中的腐蚀行为和规律 ,综合评价材料的耐蚀性能 ,对 1 9种碳钢和低合金钢进行 1、8、1 6a长周期实海暴露挂片试验。采用“极值”统计方法的Gumbel第一类近似函数对一次局部腐蚀数据进行极值概率处理 ,校准局部腐蚀量。将材料的平均腐蚀量和局部腐蚀量进行组合 ,以此综合评价 1 9种钢的耐海水腐蚀性能     

Effect of cathodic polarization and sulfate reducing bacteria on mechanical properties of different steels in synthetic sea water

At the slow strain rate tensile tests done using the specially designed facility, the decrease in the elongation to fracture, reduction of area, fracture energy and no effect on the strength have been stated for the low alloy ferrite‐pearlite and sorbite steels, polarized in synthetic sea water at potentials corresponding to the cathodic protection (? 800 to ? 1400 mV_SCE). Presence of SRB promotes the plasticity loss, being especially pronounced at potentials ? 1100 to ? 1200 mV_SCE. At higher cathodic polarization, the plasticity estimated in inoculated and in sterile water equalizes. The effects have been correlated with the contents of absorbed and of permeable hydrogen. The promotion of hydrogen charging and the plasticity loss by SRB at the low and medium applied cathodic polarization has been accounted for the observed production of S^?2 ions and inhibition of deposit formation. The negligible effect of SRB at the high cathodic polarization has been suggested to be a result of the suppression the SRB growth due to the high alkalization of the near surface solution. The same amount of hydrogen produces the less detrimental effect on the sorbite than on the ferrite‐pearlite steel. However, at the similar cathodic polarization, the sorbite steel absorbs the highest amount of hydrogen and reveals the most pronounced degradation. Cathodic protection of constructions subjected to the action of SRB in the sea water should provide the conditions, under which no fragment of marine construction could be polarized by potential corresponding to the maximum degradation of the plastic properties of steels (? 1100 to ? 1200 mV_SCE).     

Effects of Heat Treatments on Steels for Bearing Applications

AISI 52 100, 440C, REX20, and Crucible CRU80 steel samples were exposed to 16 different heat treatments to vary the levels of retained austenite. Rockwell C hardness measurements, optical microscopy, and compression testing were used to compare the properties of the different steels.     

Detection and measurement of surface cracks in ferromagnetic materials using eddy current testing

Eddy current testing is used to detect and quantify defects in electric conductive materials. Defects investigated are specifically mechanical, chemical and microstructural heterogeneities. In this scope, artificial defects simulating superficial cracks have been achieved in order to establish an eventual relationship between the orientation, the shape and the size of the defect in one hand, and the signature that it generates in the impedance plane on the other hand. We determine in the first stage the operating conditions for the minimization of all signals that may perturb the crack signal such as the background one. We have been able to detect easily a surface crack on ferromagnetic steel in a large range of the frequency. Curves allowing the discrimination between signals corresponding to the presence of cracks and those corresponding to a lift-off have been established. The limit depth has as well been determined and we found that this limit has no relationship with the depth of penetration of the eddy current. The operative parameters such as the diameter and the working mode of the probe, the excitation frequency and the setting of the measurement equipment have been optimized for the testing of the quality and the reliability of critical ferromagnetic steel parts.     

工程用高强度钢拉杆的研制与应用

通过对工程用高强度钢拉杆的研制,在材料选择、热处理工艺、力学性能检测上积累了丰富经验,做到了工艺、技术的创新,实现了国产化,满足了工程要求。