The heterogeneous mixed-grain microstructure is a common defect for the heavy forging of 316LN austenitie stainless steel. Isothermal compression experiments were performed on a Gleeble-3500 thermo-mechanical simulato...The heterogeneous mixed-grain microstructure is a common defect for the heavy forging of 316LN austenitie stainless steel. Isothermal compression experiments were performed on a Gleeble-3500 thermo-mechanical simulator to investigate the effect of process parameters on the fragment and re- finement of millimeter-grade coarse grains (MCGs) during hot cogging. The experimental results in- dicate that the stress of MCG specimens is much larger than that of fine grain (FG) ones at 1150 ℃, while the stress difference between MCG and FG samples became smaller at 1200 ℃. Moreover, the MCGs can be well fragmented and refined under the condition of temperature of 1200 ℃, strain rate of 0.01 s-1 , and reduction rate of 50%. Meanwhile, numerical simulations were conducted to study the influences of temperature, strain and strain rate on microstructure evolution. The results of ex- periments and simulations comprehensively demonstrate that the MCG results in the increase of de- formation resistance and incompatibility of deformation, and it can be fragmented and refined at 1200 ℃ so that the plastic deformation energy decreases remarkably with the increase of temperature from 1 150 to 1200 ℃.展开更多
基金financially sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51675335)the support from Shanghai Rising-Star Program(Grant No.17YF1408900)the Young Scientist Research Award from Shanghai Jiao Tong University(Grant No.16X100040025)
文摘The heterogeneous mixed-grain microstructure is a common defect for the heavy forging of 316LN austenitie stainless steel. Isothermal compression experiments were performed on a Gleeble-3500 thermo-mechanical simulator to investigate the effect of process parameters on the fragment and re- finement of millimeter-grade coarse grains (MCGs) during hot cogging. The experimental results in- dicate that the stress of MCG specimens is much larger than that of fine grain (FG) ones at 1150 ℃, while the stress difference between MCG and FG samples became smaller at 1200 ℃. Moreover, the MCGs can be well fragmented and refined under the condition of temperature of 1200 ℃, strain rate of 0.01 s-1 , and reduction rate of 50%. Meanwhile, numerical simulations were conducted to study the influences of temperature, strain and strain rate on microstructure evolution. The results of ex- periments and simulations comprehensively demonstrate that the MCG results in the increase of de- formation resistance and incompatibility of deformation, and it can be fragmented and refined at 1200 ℃ so that the plastic deformation energy decreases remarkably with the increase of temperature from 1 150 to 1200 ℃.