Effect of Copper Sulfide on the Fatigue Properties of Bake Hardening Steels

Abstract:

Bake hardening steels have to resist strain aging to prevent the yield strength increment and stretcher strain during press process and to enhance the bake hardenability during baking process after painting. The bake hardening steels need to control the solute carbon and the solute nitrogen to improve the bake hardenability. Ti and/or Nb alloying for nitride and carbide precipitation and low carbon content below 0.003% are used to solve strain aging and formability problem for automotive materials. However, in the present study, the effect of micro-precipitation of copper sulfide on the bake hardenability and fatigue properties of extremely low carbon steel has been investigated. The bake hardenability of Cu-alloyed bake hardening (Cu-BH) steel was slightly higher (5MPa) than that of Nb-alloyed bake hardening (Nb-BH) steel, but the fatigue limit of Cu-BH steel was far higher (45MPa) than that of Nb-BH steel. All samples showed the ductile fracture behavior and some samples revealed distinct fatigue stages, such as crack initiation, stable crack growth and unstable crack growth.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volumes 654-656)
• Pages: 186-189
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.654-656.186
• Online since: June 2010
• Authors: Il Dong Choi, Sung Gyu Kang, Ji Hyun Jang, Sung Bok Lee, Moon Hi Hong
• Keywords: Bake Hardening, BH Steel, Coherent, Copper Sulfide, Fatigue Limit

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