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Intercritical Annealing Processing and a New Type of Quenching and Partitioning Processing, Actualized by Combining Intercritical Quenching and Tempering, for Medium Manganese Lightweight Steel
Author(s) -
Cao Ronghua,
Liang Juhua,
Li Feng,
Li Cheng,
Zhao Zhengzhi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
steel research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.603
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1869-344X
pISSN - 1611-3683
DOI - 10.1002/srin.201900335
Subject(s) - tempering , materials science , austenite , martensite , metallurgy , quenching (fluorescence) , annealing (glass) , ultimate tensile strength , manganese , microstructure , physics , quantum mechanics , fluorescence
The microstructure and its effects on mechanical properties of medium manganese lightweight steel are investigated under both intercritical annealing (IA) and a new type of quenching and partitioning processing, actualized by combining intercritical quenching and tempering (IQ‐T P ). The result shows that the steel intercritically annealed at 800 °C exhibits a superior tensile ductility, which is related to long‐term continued transformation‐induced plasticity (TRIP) effect of austenite. Tempering has different effects on steels quenched at various temperatures. For the sample quenched at 800 °C, tempering has a negative effect on its mechanical properties due to a decrease in both volume fraction of austenite and carbon content in austenite. However, for the samples quenched at the range of 850–900 °C, the tempering heat treatment can remarkably improve mechanical properties, which is related to the improvement of austenite stability due to the partitioning of carbon from the carbon‐supersaturated primary martensite into the austenite through the simple quenching and tempering treatment. Meanwhile, the tempering treatment can dramatically promote the yield strength. One of the important reasons is carbon in the primary martensite precipitation as carbides within tempered martensite.