Coarse Grained Heat-Affected Zone Microstructure and Brittleness of Ti-Nb-B Microalloyed High Toughness and Wear Resistant Steel

Defa Li; Kaiming Wu; Hangyu Dong; Oleg Isayev; Oleksandr Hress

doi:10.3390/met9030289

Metals (Mar 2019)

Coarse Grained Heat-Affected Zone Microstructure and Brittleness of Ti-Nb-B Microalloyed High Toughness and Wear Resistant Steel

Defa Li,
Kaiming Wu,
Hangyu Dong,
Oleg Isayev,
Oleksandr Hress

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Defa Li: The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Systems Science on Metallurgical Processing, International Research Institute for Steel Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China
Kaiming Wu: The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Systems Science on Metallurgical Processing, International Research Institute for Steel Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China
Hangyu Dong: The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Systems Science on Metallurgical Processing, International Research Institute for Steel Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China
Oleg Isayev: The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Systems Science on Metallurgical Processing, International Research Institute for Steel Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China
Oleksandr Hress: The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Systems Science on Metallurgical Processing, International Research Institute for Steel Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/met9030289
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 3
p. 289

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The effects of B, Ti-Nb, and Ti-Nb-B microalloying on the microstructure and properties of the coarse grain heat affected zone (CGHAZ) of C-Mn-Si-Mo wear-resistant steel have been investigated by means of thermal simulation, mechanical property test, microstructure analysis, and theoretical formula calculation. The B, Ti-Nb, and Ti-Nb-B microalloyed C-Mn-Si-Mo wear-resistant steels prepared by a controlled rolling + direct quenching + low temperature (CR + DQ + T) process have martensite/bainite (M/B) dual-phase microstructure and fully-refined effective grain size, which make the base metal to have high hardness and impact toughness. At the heat input of 20 kJ/cm, the impact toughness of CGHAZ of three kinds of microalloyed wear-resistant steels decreased in varying degrees. The main reasons for brittleness were coarse grain embrittlement and microstructural embrittlement. Ti-Nb-B microalloying can effectively prevent grain growth in CGHAZ while avoiding the formation of pearlite, small lump ferrite, and large grain carbides at the grain boundaries, thereby reducing the embrittlement of coarse grain and microstructure.

Published in Metals

ISSN: 2075-4701 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Mining engineering. Metallurgy
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals

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