Selection of Heat Treatment Process and Wear Mechanism of High Wear Resistant Cast Hot-Forging Die Steel

Dry sliding wear tests of a Cr-Mo-V cast hot-forging die steel was carried out within a load range of 50--300 N at 400℃ by a pin-on-disc high temperature wear machine. The effect of heat treatment process on wear resistance was systematically studied in order to select heat treatment processes of the steel with high wear resistance. The morphology, structure and composition were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy （SEM）, X-ray diffraction （XRD） and energy dispersive spectroscopy （EDS） ; wear mechanism was also discussed. Tribo-oxide layer was found to form on worn surfaces to reduce wear under low loads, but appear inside the matrix to increase wear under high loads. The tribo-oxides were mainly consisted of Fe3O4 and Fe2O3, FeO only appeared under a high load. Oxidative mild wear, transition of mild-severe wear in oxidative wear and extrusive wear took turns to operate with increasing the load. The wear resistance strongly depended on the selection of heat treatment processes or microstructures. It was found that bainite presented a better wear resistance than martensite plus bainite duplex structure, martensite structure was of the poorest wear resistance. The wear resistance increased with increasing austenizing temperature in the range of 920 to 1 120 ℃, then decreased at up to 1 220 ℃. As for tempering temperature and microstructure, the wear resistance increased in following order： 700℃ （tempered sorbite）, 200 ℃ （tempered martensite）, 440 to 650 ℃ （tempered troostite）. An appropriate combination of hardness, toughness, microstructural thermal stability was re- quired for a good wear resistance in high-temperature wear. The optimized heat treatment process was suggested for the cast hot-forging steel to be austenized at 1020 to 1 120 ℃, quenched in oil, then tempered at 440 to 650℃ for 2 h.

Effect of friction stir processed microstructure on tensile properties of an Al-Zn-Mg-Sc alloy upon subsequent aging heat treatment

An as-cast Al-Zn-Mg-Sc alloy was friction stir processed varying tool related parameters, yielding microstructures with different grain sizes （0.68, 1.8 and 5.5 μm）. Significant increases in room temperature ductility were obtained in these materials with reasonable enhancement in strength. It is demonstrated that the type of microstructure produced by friction stir processing （FSP） has a significant influence on the choice of post-FSP heat treatment design for achieving improved tensile properties. It is also found that the ultrafine grained FSP material could not achieve the desired high strength during the post-FSP heat treatment without grain coarsening, whereas the micro-grained FSP materials could reach such strength levels （〉560 MPa） under conventional age hardening heat treatment conditions.

RETAINED AUSTENITE IN LASER PROCESSED STEELS

This paper Presents experimental data on effect of carbon concentration and laser processing regimes on retained austenite quantity. The data on retained austenite decomposition during subsequent temperings at various temperatures as well as after holding at room temperature during 3 years are given.Correla- tion between structural broadening of the X - ray lines of retained gamma - phase and the amount of the latter has been discovered.Mechanisms responsible for the increased quantity of the retained austen- ite in carbon and low alloyed steels after laser hardening are described.

Regulation mechanism for the formation and microwave absorbing performance of CNT/CoFe-MOF derived hierarchical composite

The structure design,performance analysis,and process optimization of CNT/MOF-derived hierarchical composite play an important role in the development of high-performance microwave absorbing materi-als.Herein,the preparation,morphology evolution,and electromag-netic wave absorption mechanism of CNT/MOF-derived hierarchical composite were systematically investigated.The regulation mechan-ism was revealed by studying the changes in the morphological characteristics,electromagnetic properties,and microwave absorbing performance of CNT/MOF-derived hierarchical composite under differ-ent process parameters.The results show that the morphological characteristics and interface bonding between CNT and MOF have a great impact on the absorptive capacity.The composite with com-position of 0.28Co/0.26Fe has a maximum absorption of−46 dB at 8.6 GHz and a thickness of 4 mm.In addition,the absorption band with reflection loss values of less than−20 dB can be operated with this thickness between 7.15 and 10.18 GHz,showing excellent absorbing ability and electromagnetic wave bandwidth.The regulation mechan-ism of CNT/MOF-derived hierarchical composite mainly depends on the effect of Lorentz force,the ion disorder of CoO-Fe_(2)O_(3) heterojunc-tion,and the spin polarization mechanism of free electrons.This study further improves the corresponding theoretical basis and new design principles,which provides technical support for the development of high-performance absorbing materials.