变形温度对含Nb双相钢显微组织的影响

通过单道次压缩及连续冷却实验,研究了变形温度(810-720℃)对具有超细原始奥氏体晶粒的含Nb双相钢显微组织的影响.实验结果表明:实验钢最终组织为铁索体加马氏体的双相组织.压缩过程中,实验钢应力-应变曲线上出现峰值,且峰值应力随变形温度的降低先增大后减小;随着变形温度的降低,铁索体的含量先增大再减小,但增减幅度不大,在最低变形温度(720℃)时,铁素体品粒尺寸降低到2.8 μm,弥散分布于铁素体晶界上的马氏体含量达到22.7%;随着变形温度的增加,铁索体晶粒硬度减小,最低可降至230 GPa;EBSD取向分析显示,随着变形温度的降低,组织中小角度晶界增多.

EFFECT OF DEFORMATION TEMPERATURE ON THE MICROSTRUCTURE OF Nb-MICROALLOYED DUAL PHASE STEEL

Previous researches indicated that the mechanical property of dual phase steel is not only dcpended on the volume fractions and grain sizes of ferrite and martensite but also the morphology and distribution of martensite island. Therefore, it is desired to obtain dispersive distribution of fine martensite islands in the matrix of fine grained ferrite. Gcnerally, there are two methods to refinc ferrite grain. First, γ/α dynamic transformation is promoted by increasing austenite free energy through heavy deformation at low temperature region. Second, fine ferrite grain is achieved by refining the initial austenite grain which can be obtained by microalloying, recrystallizing and cyclic heat treatment. In this paper, a low carbon Nb-microalloyed steel was cyclic heat-treated to obtain 4.2 μm sized initial austenite grain and then cooled to different temperatures (810-720 ℃) to compressively deform. The effccts of deformation temperature on flow stress curve, and the morphologies and distributions of ferrite and martensite island, two constituted phases in the steel, were investigated. The flow stress curves possess peak stress which increascs first and then decreases with dccrcasing of deformation temperature. And the volume fraction of ferrite also decreases first and then increases with decreasing of deformation temperature, but the change is slight. At the lowest deformation temperature of 720℃, the size of ferrite grain was decreased to 2.8 μm and the volume fraction of fine martensite island which is dispersively distributed around the boundaries of ferrite was increased up to 22.7%. The inhomogeneity of the hardness of ferrite grains lowers with increasing of deformation temperature, and the hardness approaches a small stable value at last. The EBSD orientation maps show that the fraction of low angle grain boundary increases with decreasing of deformation temperature.