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Chemistry effects on the crack susceptibility of structural steels during continuous casting
Author(s) -
Bleck Wolfgang,
Dahl Winfried,
Picht Gunnar,
Pariser Gerhard
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
steel research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1869-344X
pISSN - 0177-4832
DOI - 10.1002/srin.200100157
Subject(s) - ductility (earth science) , metallurgy , materials science , continuous casting , structural material , casting , ultimate tensile strength , phase (matter) , atmospheric temperature range , chemical composition , microstructure , chemistry , thermodynamics , creep , physics , organic chemistry
This work is a review of research results, which have been determined in recent years in order to reveal the effects of the chemical compositions on the high temperature properties of structural steels. Special emphasis has been laid on the solidification structure, phase reactions and precipitates. For this comparison exemplary different structural steel grades have been chosen. The effect of the chemical composition on the solidification structure is shown by increasing Ni mass contents up to 10 %, the influence on the phase transformation is illustrated on the basis of a steel with a Mn mass content of 1.6 % and varying carbon contents. The influence of precipitates has been investigated both on the basis of the Mn/S‐ratio and by microalloyed structural steels with different Nb, V and Ti additions. For all these steel grades the laboratory testing conditions were the same. The high temperature properties of steels can be investigated by high temperature tensile tests; the range of good ductility is determined by the measurement of the reduction of area, e.g. RoA > 50 % or >70 %. The upper limit of the ductility range is the temperature of zero ductility, T ZD% . The lower limit of the good ductility range is marked by the transition to the ductility minimum II. The experiments for a series of different structural steels show that the hot ductility properties are affected by the metallurgical phenomena mentioned before.