Deformation, fracture, and mechanical properties of low-temperature-tempered martensite in SAE 43xx steels
- Deutsche Bahn AG, Brandenburg-Kirchmoeser (Germany)
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States). Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Uniaxial tensile tests were performed on 4330, 4340, and 4350 steels in the as-quenched (AQ) condition and after quenching and tempering at 150 C, 175 C, and 200 C for times of 10 minutes, 1 hour, and 10 hours, respectively. Strength parameters decreased and ductility parameters increased continuously with increasing tempering. Mechanical properties are presented as a function of tempering conditions and steel carbon content, and hardness and ultimate strength changes are given as a function of Hollomon-Jaffe tempering parameters. All tempered specimens, except for some lightly tempered 4350 specimens, deformed plastically through necking instability and failed by ductile fracture. The stresses required for the ductile fracture, estimated from an analysis of the interfacial stresses at particles in the neck at fracture, showed no systematic variation with carbon content of tempering conditions despite significant variations in deformation and strain hardening. The AQ specimens of the 4340 and 4350 steels, and some of the lightly tempered 4350 steels, failed by brittle mechanisms. The deformation and fracture of the low-temperature-tempered 43xx steels are discussed in terms of the changes in fine structure, namely, the formation of transition carbides and a rearranged dislocation substructure that evolve from an AQ martensitic substructure consisting of dislocations with and without carbon atom segregation.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn (Germany)
- OSTI ID:
- 474120
- Journal Information:
- Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. A, Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, Vol. 28, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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