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摘要: 研究不同含量的上貝氏體對ER8車輪鋼裂紋擴展行為的影響。利用激光共聚焦顯微鏡(LSCM)和掃描電鏡(SEM)對ER8車輪鋼的顯微組織和裂紋擴展路徑進行了研究。實驗結果表明:ER8車輪鋼中的組織除了有鐵素體和珠光體,還存在上貝氏體;裂紋穿過上貝氏體和珠光體擴展,最終停止在珠光體區域;與珠光體組織相比,裂紋在上貝氏體中的擴展路徑更曲折。利用掃描電鏡(SEM)對ER8車輪鋼的裂紋擴展變形進行原位觀察。實驗結果表明:含有80%上貝氏體的ER8車輪鋼拉伸時,組織變形過程主要以鐵素體和上貝氏體為主,裂紋在上貝氏體和珠光體中連續擴展,伴隨著珠光體的變形;而含有50%上貝氏體的ER8車輪鋼拉伸時,組織變形過程主要以鐵素體和珠光體為主,并且上貝氏體對鐵素體和珠光體的變形起到阻礙作用。上貝氏體能夠有效地阻止裂紋擴展,在偏轉裂紋路徑和延緩裂紋擴展方面起著重要作用;并且對鐵素體和珠光體的變形起到阻礙作用。Abstract: In recently years, high-speed and heavy-haul railway technology has been rapidly developed and widely used in China. Pearlite steel is usually used in railway wheels, and its structure is composed of pearlite and ferrite. Pearlite has properties, including mechanical properties, that combine those of ferrite and cementite, and it also has acceptable strength and toughness. The comprehensive mechanical properties of pearlite are better than those of ferrite or cementite alone. When upper bainite is produced after the heat-treatment of ER8 wheel steel, the upper bainite may become the channel of crack development because of the large carbide particles and the weak strengthening effect and especially because of the presence of flake ferrites. In this study, the influence of different contents of upper bainite on the crack propagation behavior of ER8 wheel steel was investigated. The microstructure and crack growth path of ER8 wheel steel were studied by laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The experimental results show that ER8 wheel steels not only have ferrite and pearlite but also upper bainite. The crack propagates through the upper bainite and pearlite and finally stops in the pearlite region. Compared with the pearlite microstructure, the crack propagation path in the upper bainite is more tortuous. The crack propagation and deformation of ER8 wheel steels were observed in situ by scanning electron microscopy. The experimental results show that when ER8 iron wheel steel containing 80% upper bainite is stretched, the microstructure deformation process is mainly ferrite and upper bainite. The crack in the upper bainite and the pearlite continues to expand with the pearlite deformation. However, when ER8 iron wheel steel containing 50% upper bainite is stretched, the deformation process mainly involves ferrite and pearlite, and the upper bainite retards the ferrite and pearlite deformation. The upper bainite can effectively prevent crack growth and plays an important role in deflecting crack path and delaying crack growth. Moreover, it hinders the deformation of ferrite and pearlite.
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Key words:
- ER8 wheel steel /
- upper bainite /
- crack /
- in situ stretching /
- plastic deformation
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圖 5 ER8車輪鋼裂紋擴展示意圖. (a)裂紋萌生處;(b~d)裂紋在上貝氏體中擴展;(e~f)裂紋在珠光體中擴展(這些顯微照片不是在車輪鋼的同一區域拍攝)
Figure 5. ER8 wheel steel crack propagation diagram: (a) crack initiation; (b–d) crack propagation in upper bainite; (e–f) crack propagation in pearlite (Note that these micrographs were not taken at the same region of the wheel steels)
圖 6 1#車輪鋼原位拉伸掃描組織圖. (a)變形初期形成的主裂紋;(b)圖(a)的局部放大;(c)拉力增大,主裂紋擴展;(d)主裂紋進一步擴展;(e)拉伸斷裂后,主裂紋旁邊組織變形;(f)拉伸斷裂后,主裂紋附近的組織變形
Figure 6. In situ tensile scanning microstructure of 1# wheel steel: (a) main cracks formed in the early deformation stage; (b) partial enlargement of Fig.(a); (c) image showing main crack growth with tension increasing; (d) further expansion of the main crack; (e) microstructure adjacent to the main crack after tensile fracture; (f) microstructure around the main crack after tensile fracture
圖 7 2#車輪鋼原位拉伸掃描組織圖. (a)變形初期形成的主裂紋;(b)圖(a)的局部放大;(c)拉力增大,主裂紋穿過上貝氏體擴展;(d~f)拉伸斷裂后,主裂紋附近的組織變形
Figure 7. In situ tensile scanning microstructure of 2# wheel steel: (a) main cracks formed in the early deformation stage; (b) partial enlargement of Fig.(a); (c) image showing main crack growth with tension increasing; (d–f) deformation of the microstructure near the main crack after tensile fracture
表 1 ER8車輪鋼化學成分(質量分數)
Table 1. ER8 wheel steel chemical composition
% Sample C Si Mn S P Cr Mo Ni V Fe 1# 0.50 0.34 0.74 0.002 0.007 0.19 0.03 0.17 0.02 Bal. 2# 0.49 0.35 0.74 0.001 0.007 0.19 0.03 0.15 0.04 Bal. 259luxu-164 -
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