Papers by Keyword: Thermomechanical Treatment

Abstract: The effect of carbide orientation on the dry sliding wear behaviour of high chromium cast iron was studied by pin-on-disc type wear tests at room temperature. The carbide anisotropy was achieved by thermomechanical treatments at temperatures of 950 and 1150 °C. By cladding with low carbon steel, the brittle high chromium cast iron was hot compressed severely with crack free. The thermomechanical treatments not only change the carbide orientation, but also increase the volume fraction of carbides. Due to the long axis of carbide rods is parallel to the wear surface, the high chromium cast iron treated at 1150 °C has a superior wear resistance than the as-cast one, in which the long axis of carbides is perpendicular to the wear surface. For the high chromium cast iron treated at 950 °C, high volume fraction of carbide pits accelerates the wear rate significantly even though it has a similar carbide orientation as the sample treated at 1150 °C. The observations on wear tracks reveal that the ferrous matrix can be protected better from abrasion when the high chromium cast iron was treated at 1150 °C.

Abstract: The structure formation features of steel with 0.4 C, 1.5 Cr, 1.5 Ni, 0.5 Mo (wt. %) after high-temperature thermomechanical treatment with martensite-bainite transformation of austenite was investigated. It was found that a mixed structure consisting of alternating elongated areas of tempered martensite and lower bainite was formed by steel treatment. The proposed treatment can significantly increase impact strength and fracture toughness of steel. This technological process is mostly effective for strengthening alloy steels with increased resistance of under-cooled austenite.

Abstract: The main fields of the practical application of Ti-Ni-based alloys, with shape memory and superelasticity effects, in engineering and medicine, have been identified in the past decade. There are temperature-sensitive elements for the actuators, damping devices, fasteners, medical instruments and implants (correctors, clamps, stents), for trauma, spine, dentistry, soft tissues and vessels. The development of science and high technologies to produce semi-finished methods (thin-walled tubes, tapes and thin wire), as well as processing methods (laser cutting and welding) of Ti-Ni-based shape memory alloys (SMA) over the last 10 years has contributed to the creation and implementation into practice of more complicated and advanced devices, based on solid and porous shape memory materials. New technologies require not only the creation of fundamentally new shape-memory devices, but also, more importantly, the achievement of the highest possible functional properties (FP) of the SMA, by creating an optimal type of structure by thermomechanical treatment. Techniques for the regulation of FP are different for Ti-Ni SMA of different compositions. For the non-ageing equiatomic and near-equiatomic Ti-Ni SMA, the basic method of FP control is thermomechanical treatment (ТМT), including severe plastic deformation (SPD), forming various structures: from a well-developed recovered and polygonized dislocation substructure to a nanocrystalline structure. In the framework of the scientific direction, fundamental and applied research in the field of SMA thermomechanical treatment (TMT) has been carried out since 1977, by the Shape Memory Alloys Research Group of the National University of Science and Technology MISIS.The present review provides a brief description of the devices running on the shape-memory effect and superelasticity, developed jointly by NUST "MISIS" and various companies: Globetek 2000 Ltd (Melbourne, Australia); Semashko Central Clinical Hospital of Ministry of Railway Communications; Closed Joint-Stock Company ARMGAS-NT; Scientific-production Enterprise AVTOMATPROM (Moscow, Russia), et al. In addition, it presents the analysis of medical problems that can be solved using data devices, including work items of thermomechanically treated Ti-Ni SMA.

Abstract: Recent studies in the field of thermomechanical treatment (TMT) of Ti-Ni shape memory alloys are presented and discussed. The main problems of structure and phase transformations, and their effect on the Ti-Ni functional properties are stated. The structure formation and phase transformations are studied using TEM, XRD and DSC analyses, and the specific features of the nanostructures formed as a result of TMT are described. Algorithms for the calculation of the theoretical limit of recovery strain under the single-crystal and poly-crystal approaches (with and without texture) are proposed and experimentally validated for nanostructured SMA. Static functional properties (recovery strain and stress, parameters of superelasticity) and dynamic (fatigue) functional properties (multiple realization of stress-free shape memory, shape memory under stress, recovery stress generation-relaxation, superelastic mechanocycling) of the thermomechanically-treated Ti-Ni shape memory alloys are discussed in detail. The main attention is paid to the interrelations between the microstructure and the functional properties of the thermomechanically-treated Ti-Ni shape memory alloys.

Abstract: This Chapter is focused on the Ti-Nb-based shape memory alloys for biomedical applications; the principal objective being to understand interrelations between structure and transformation features, static and dynamic functional properties, and conditions of their thermomechanical treatment. This Chapter includes also preliminary study of the surface characteristics of Ti-Nb-based alloys, including their elemental and phase compositions, tribological characteristics, wettability, electrochemical behaviour, and in vitro biocompatibility. The results obtained make it possible to conclude that Ti-Nb-based shape memory alloys represent one of the strongest candidates for a new generation of load-bearing orthopaedic or dental implants with improved biocompatibility, since they combine high biomechanical compatibility of Ti-Ni shape memory alloys with excellent biochemical compatibility of pure titanium.

Abstract: Supersaturated Cu-3at.% Ag alloy was processed by cold rolling and short-time annealing in order to achieve a combination of high strength and good tensile ductility. After annealing of the rolled samples a heterogeneous solute atom distribution was developed due to the dissolution of nanosized Ag particles in some volumes of the matrix. In regions with higher solute content, the high dislocation density formed due to rolling was stabilized, while in other volumes the dislocation density decreased. The heterogeneous microstructure obtained after annealing exhibited a much higher ductility and only a slightly lower strength than in the as-rolled state.

Abstract: New generation high-strength austenitic and austenitic-ferritic manganese steels represent a valid potential in applications for components in the automotive and railway industry due to the perfect combination of high mechanical properties and formability. Applying this new steels with their combination of properties allows for reduce the weight of vehicles by the use reduced cross-section components and thus to reduce fuel consumption. The development and implementation of industrial production and the use as construction materials such interesting and promising steel is conditioned to improve their casting properties and susceptibility to deformation during thermomechanical processes conditions. In this work, applied an new high manganese austenitic-ferritic steel for analysis the influence of the cooling medium in thermomechanical processes on the mechanical properties and structure of researched steel. The steel was hot rolled with finish temperature 900°C and next cooled with different conditions. Change the cooling conditions effect on the changes in the microstructure of the tested steel, observed grain refinement of austenite and ferrite morphology change. Also are changing the mechanical characteristics of the tested steel.

Abstract: A new method for combined thermo-mechanical treatment of steel 0.4 % C, 1.5 % Cr, 1.5 % Ni, 0.5 % Mo is developed. Thermo-mechanical processing includes hot forging and rapid cooling to the temperature range between the beginning and end of martensitic transformation. The final stage of heat treatment is heating up to the temperature of bainite transformation in which the remaining austenite transforms into a bainite structure and previously formed martensite tempers. In comparison with well known techniques of thermal treatment, the developed thermo-mechanical treatment increases the impact toughness of the steel by 2 times and fatigue crack resistance by 6 times (with equal values of strength parameters). The technological process of high-temperature thermo-mechanical treatment is recommended for treatment of high-strength blank forging.

Abstract: The dry sliding wear behaviour of the full pearlite in a novel bimetal consisting of low carbon steel and hypoeutectoid steel has been studied by means of pin-on-disc type wear tests at room temperature. Thermomechanical treatments were performed on the bimetallic samples to obtain different interlamellar spacings. It was found that interlamellar spacing decreased with an increase in plastic strain to a great extent initially and followed by a lower extent of decrease. This decrease not only increases the hardness and strain hardening capacity of the fully pearlitic microstructure, but also is in favor of stabilizing the friction coefficient during sliding process. The observations of wear tracks show that delamination dominated the wear process when interlamellar spacing is higher than 200 nm, while pronounced oxidational wear occurred with interlamellar spacing below 200 nm.

Abstract: In the present study the effects of thermomechanical treatment on the stress-induced martensitic transformation and superelasticity of [001]-oriented Ni₅₄Fe₁₉Ga₂₇ (at.%) single crystals were investigated. It is shown that high-temperature superelasticity is observed up to 453 K in the as-grown Ni₅₄Fe₁₉Ga₂₇ single crystals. Thermomechanical treatment result in increasing of the martensite yield stress, and so the SE interval, which is observed up to 523 K.