Carbide Precipitation during Tempering and Its Effect on the Wear Loss of a High-Carbon 8 Mass% Cr Tool Steel.
Materials (Basel)
; 11(12)2018 Dec 07.
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ABSTRACT
In this paper, the precipitation of carbide and wear loss of high-carbon 8 mass% Cr tool steel at two tempering conditions (i.e., 773â»803 K and 823â»853 K) were studied by INCA Steel, EPMA-1720H, XRD, and ML-10 tester. The results show that the particles of test steels include the carbides (Cr7C3 and Cr23C6) and carbides nucleated on Al2O3. When carbides are of the same size, the number of carbides in test steel at a tempering temperature of 773â»803 K is greater than that at a tempering temperature of 823â»853 K, especially when the size of carbides is less than 5 µm. Compared with the test steel tempered at 823â»853 K, the distance between adjacent actual particles reduced by 80.6 µm and the maximum amount of reduction was 9.4% for single wear loss at the tempering temperature of 773â»803 K. It can be concluded from thermodynamics results that Al2O3 inclusions began to precipitate in liquid, and the precipitation of carbides was at the solidâ»liquid region. Al2O3 can be used as the nucleation interface of carbide, thus promoting the formation of carbides. During the cooling of molten steel, a lower temperature can increase the difference of actual solubility product bigger than equilibrium solubility product, thus promoting the carbide formation.
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Materials (Basel)
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