Phase and structural transformations when forming a welded joint from rail steel. Report 1. Thermokinetic diagram of decomposition of supercooled austenite of R350LHT rail steel
Open Access
- 2 April 2021
- journal article
- Published by National University of Science and Technology MISiS in Izvestiya. Ferrous Metallurgy
- Vol. 64 (2), 95-103
- https://doi.org/10.17073/0368-0797-2021-2-95-103
Abstract
A thermokinetic diagram of decomposition of supercooled austenite of R350LHT steel was constructed based on the results of its dilatometric, metallographic and hardness analysis during continuous cooling and in isothermal conditions. It was found that cooling at a rate of 0.1 and 1 °C/s causes the austenite decomposition in R350LHT steel by the pearlite mechanism. After cooling at a lower rate, the pearlite structure is coarser and has lower hardness (289 HV). This is due to the higher temperature range of transformation, in which diffusion processes associated with the transformation of austenite into pearlite occur more actively. In the range of rates from 5 to 10 °C/s, the austenite decomposition occurs according to the pearlite and martensitic mechanism, which leads to the formation of a pearlite-martensite structure. When the austenite of the steel under study is cooled at a rate of 30 and 100 °C/s, the austenite transforms according to the martensitic mechanism, and a martensitic structure with high hardness is formed. With an increase in the cooling rate of R350LHT steel, an increase in hardness is observed from 289 (at 0.1 °C/s) to 864 – 0 896 HV (at 100 and 30 °C/s, respectively). The conducted studies allow the boundaries of the search for optimal parameters of welding and heat treatment modes of the investigated rail steel to be narrowed. To obtain the required structures and physical and mechanical properties (austenite of R350LHT steel undergoes decomposition by the pearlite mechanism), cooling should be carried out at a rate of no more than 1 °С/s.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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