Research on submerged arc welding wire for X100 pipeline steel

According to the study of the microstructure and properties of X100 pipeline steel, the welding consumable-wire based on Mn-Ni-Mo-B-Ti alloy system was successfully designed and developed. The yield strength of the deposited metal of the developed welding wire was 695 MPa, the tensile strength was 810 MPa, and Charpy impact energy was 92 J at negative 20 ℃ when matching with BSG-SJ101H1 sintered flux. The results of the weldability test for X100 pipeline steel which adopting this developed wire showed that the tensile strength of the weld was 827 MPa, 185 J of Charpy impact energy（ -10 ℃ ） , 97% of section of shear and the weld had good strength and toughness matching when the welding speed got to 1.7 m/min. The microstructure and fracture appearance of the weld were analyzed by using metallographic microscope, scanning electron microscope （SEM） and laser confocal microscope, the results indicated that the microstructure was mainly granular bainite in the weld metal, and the fracture was dimple with 200 - 300 μm depth presenting a typical ductile fracture characteristics. The test of welding wire with different content of Ni and Cr element indicated that Ni was better than Cr in improving the strength and toughness of weld metal.

Microstructure and properties of HAZ for X100 pipeline steel

In general, the weld thermal cycle results in significant changes in microstructure and mechanical properties of the weld heat affected zone （ HAZ）. The microstructure, microhardness and low temperature impact toughness of HAZfor X100 pipeline steel were studied by means of welding thermal simulation. Influence of cooling time on the microstructure and properties in coarse-grained heat affected zone （CGHAZ） was investigated. The results illustrated that polygonal ferrite and a small amount of granular bainite were obtained when the cooling time ts/5 is larger than 1 500 s. Mainly granular bainite was formed when the cooling time t8/5 is in the range of 1500 s to 100 s. Bainite ferrite was observed when the cooling time is smaller than 60 s. Martensite appeared in the CGHAZ with the 20 s cooling time. The value of microhardness in the CGHAZ was higher than that of base metal （ BM） when the cooling time ts/s is smaller than 100 s. The CVN absorbed energy in the CGHAZ was higher than the value of BM when the cooling time t8/5 is smaller than 30 s.

Influence of the secondary welding thermal cycle on the microstructure and property of coarse grain heat-affected zone in an X100 pipeline steel

The influence of the secondary thermal cycle on the microstructure of coarse grain heat-affected zone in an XIO0 pipeline steel was investigated by means of a thermal simulation technique and microscopic analysis method. The property of coarse grain heat-affected zone was characterized by Charpy V-Notch impact properties testing. The results indicated that the experimental steel exhibited local brittleness of intercritically reheated coarse-grained heat-affected zone when the peak tempera- ture of secondary thermal cycle was in the range of two phases region （ ~ and 3/）. There were two main reasons for the local brittleness. The first was that the microstructures of intercritically reheated coarse-grained heat-affected zone were not fined although partial grain recrystallization occurred. The second was that M-A islands, which had the higher content, larger size and higher hardness, existed in intercritically reheated coarse-grained heat-affected zone.

Precipitation Behavior and Its Strengthening Effect of X100 Pipeline Steel

Using TEM （transmisson electron microscopy）, electron diffraction, EDX （energy dispersive X-ray） analysis and physicochemical phase analysis, the morphology, crystal structure, size distribution and chemical composition of precipitates in the microstructure of high strength Nb-microalloyed Xl00 pipeline steel were investigated, and the strengthening effect of precipitation was quantitatively calculated with Ashhy-Orowan correction model. The precipitates obtained in X100 pipeline steel can be divided into two kinds： ＂complex＂ and ＂single＂ particles by morphology. The EDX analysis of ＂single＂ precipitates reveals that the chemical composition matches well with particle dimensions, especially the Nb to Ti ratio regularly decreases with the increase of particle size. The yield strength increments in the way of precipitation strengthening of X100 pipeline steel reached about 52 MPa, suggesting that the precipitation strengthening is not the dominative strengthening mechanism for X100 pipeline steel.

Process Control for Structure of Martensite/Austenite Islands of 15.3 mm X100 Pipeline Steel in BX Steel

This paper mainly studies the influence of deformation amount and cooling rate,which existed in X100 pipeline steel rolled at 2300mm rolling mill in BX STEEL,on morphology,size relations and distribution of M/A islands of steel plate structure.Experimental results show that structures of M/A islands are homogenized and refined under the conditions of appropriately increasing the deformation amount in non-recrystallization region on basis of rational deformation amount in recrystallization region and cooling rate after deformation,respectively.Finally,according to the actual situation of 2300mm hot rolling mill,this paper gives rational deformation amount and cooling rate used to obtain ideal structure of M/A islands.

Effect of controlled rolling/controlled cooling parameters on microstructure and mechanical properties of the novel pipeline steel

The study of controlled rolling/controlled cooling process parameters which affect the microstructure and mechanical properties of a novel pipeline steel has been optimized by the orthogonal experiment with four factors and three levels in this paper. However, the parameters of thermo-mechanical control process （TMCP） optimized by the Gleeble-3500 hot simulator could not satisfy performance requirements of the X100 pipeline steel. In order to improve the performance of this steel, the influence of finish cooling temperature （FCT） on the microstructure and property is studied in detail. It is found that, as this steel is thermo-mechanically treated by this set of parameters （the start heating temperature, finish rolling temperature （FRT）, FCT and cooling rate of 1,180 ℃, 810 ℃, 350 ℃ and 35 ℃/s, respectively）, the micro- structures are mainly composed of granular bainite （GB） and acicular ferrite （AF）. The effective grain sizes are below 20 μm; the steel reaches the optimal balance between the strength and the toughness; the yield strength is 695 MPa; the tensile strength is 768 MPa; the elongation is 16.6 %; the impact energy is 262 J at room temperature. All indexes could meet the requirements of X100 pipeline steel.