Dislocations Gliding Study by IR Thermography in C-Mn Steels with Different Solute Atoms Content in the Gigacycle Fatigue Domain

Abstract:

Tests were performed on two Carbon-Manganese steels (A42 and A48 steels, French standard) in the gigacycle fatigue domain thanks to a piezoelectric fatigue machine working at 20000Hz. During the tests, temperature recordings were achieved by an infrared camera for various stress amplitudes. The main difference between the two steels compositions was the aluminum content (0.045% for the A42 steel and 0.004% for the A48 steel), and the carbon content (0.140% for the A 42 steel and 0.198% for the A48 steel). In the A48 steel, the few aluminum content induces a higher free content of solute nitrogen in the lattice. Mechanical spectroscopy tests were performed and gave qualitative results on the solute contents repartition in the lattice. The temperature increase recorded during the fatigue tests for the two steels are different at the beginning of the tests. The differences can be explained by the different repartition of the solute atoms which induces a different dislocation gliding between the two materials. At the end of the tests, the thermal recordings are similar and attributed to the evolution of the solute atoms repartition and the dislocation structure.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 664)
• Pages: 177-187
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.664.177
• Online since: September 2015
• Authors: Zhi Yong Huang, Nicolas Ranc, Danièle Wagner*
• Keywords: Carbon-Manganese Steels, Dislocations Gliding, Gigacycle Fatigue Tests, Infrared Camera, Solute Content

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