Understanding Cooling Rate Response of Test Pieces and Actual Gears Using Heat Treat

Author(s):  
Mohammed Maniruzzaman ◽  
Michael A. Pershing ◽  
Joel Komurka ◽  
Curtis Henning

Abstract The cooling history of carburized heat-treated gears plays a significant role in developing microstructure, hardness, and residual stress in the tooth that influences the fatigue performance of the gear. Evaluating gear carburizing heat treatment should include a microstructure and hardened depth evaluation. This can be done on an actual part or with a test piece. The best practice for a test piece is to use a section size that closely approximates the cooling rate at the gear flank of the actual gear. This study furthers work already presented showing the correct test piece size that should be used for different gear modules (tooth thicknesses). Metallurgical comparisons between test pieces, actual gears, and FEA simulations are shown.

2011 ◽  
Vol 189-193 ◽  
pp. 3891-3894
Author(s):  
Ya Min Li ◽  
Hong Jun Liu ◽  
Yuan Hao

The casting Fe3Al intermetallics were solidified in sodium silicate sand mould and permanent mould respectively to get different cooling rates. After heat treatment (1000°С/15 h homogenizing annealing + furnace cooling followed by 600°С/1 h tempering + oil quenching), the microstructure and properties of Fe3Al intermetallics were investigated. The results show that the heat-treated Fe3Al intermetallics at higher cooling rate has finer grained microstructure than lower cooling rate, and the lattice distortion increases due to the higher solid solubility of the elements Cr and B at higher cooling rate. The tensile strength and hardness of the Fe3Al intermetallics at higher cooling rate are slightly higher also. However, the impact power of intermetallics at higher cooling rate is 67.5% higher than that at lower cooling rate, and the impact fracture mode is also transformed from intercrystalline fracture at lower cooling rate to intercrystallin+transcrystalline mixed fracture at higher cooling rate.


2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Jenan Mohammed Nagie

This paper is aimed to study the effect of cooling rate on mechanical properties of Steel 35. Specimens prepared to apply tensile, torsion, impact and hardness tests.Many prepared specimens heat treated at (850ºC) for one hour and subsequently were cooled by three different media [Water-Air-furnace] to show the effect of Medias cooling rate on mechanical properties. Microstructures of all specimens examined before and after heat treatment by an optical microscopy.To figure the phases obtained after heat treatment and its effect on the mechanical properties Experimental results have shown that the microstructure of steel can be changed and significantly improved by varying line cooling rate thus, improving one property will effect on the others because of the relationship between all properties.In water media tensile, torsion and hardness improved while impact results reduced. Air media contributed in improving most of the mechanical properties because of grain size homogeneity. At furnace media ductility and impact improved


1979 ◽  
Vol 43 (326) ◽  
pp. 279-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Johnston ◽  
K. E. Knedler

Summary57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy has been used to determine the Mg2+-Fe2+ distribution between the two crystallographically inequivalent cation sites in hypersthenes from a stratigraphic tephra sequence of the Taupo Pumice formation, North Island, New Zealand. From these distributions and X-ray fluorescence analytical data, cooling histories were constructed using previously determined Mg2+-Fe2+ equilibrium isotherms for orthopyroxenes. The results showed that this cooling history geothermometer could be used to enable airfall and airflow tephra to be distinguished. In addition, they showed that the cooling rate of the above deposits correlated better with the deposit thickness, than with the distance of the deposit from the source.


1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 1189-1206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn M Bethune ◽  
Michael E Villeneuve ◽  
Wouter Bleeker

Laser 40Ar/39Ar ages for hornblende, muscovite, and biotite from Archean plutonic rocks of Yellowknife Domain, southwestern Slave Province, complement U-Pb ages from minerals with higher closure temperatures (zircon, monazite, titanite). Together, the data indicate that the plutonic suites of different ages (Defeat, Prosperous, Morose) coring three major thermal culminations in the domain have distinct Archean cooling histories until below approximately 250°C (biotite closure). The cooling trajectories for successive suites appear to document a decrease in cooling rate over the course of orogeny, possibly reflecting the build-up of heat within the orogen, coupled with a transition to lower rates of exhumation and (or) erosion. Greater structural relief over the Sleepy Dragon basement culmination may be responsible for slower cooling of the Morose Granite situated in its core. At or below the closure temperature of biotite the cooling curves converge with one another, documenting a transition from "localized" to "regional" cooling. The fact that cooling was locality specific until at least the biotite closure temperature suggests that, just as intrusion and related peak metamorphism were diachronous across the region, so was cooling to approximately 250°C. Uniform regional isotherms thus were not established until >200 Ma after the youngest Archean plutonism. The variable disturbance of biotite Ar spectra, but generally not muscovite or hornblende, indicates that the Paleoproterozoic thermal disturbance of Archean rocks in Yellowknife Domain did not exceed 200-300°C.


Holzforschung ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (11) ◽  
pp. 1033-1042
Author(s):  
Chuanfu Chen ◽  
Dengyun Tu ◽  
Xiangyu Zhao ◽  
Qiaofang Zhou ◽  
Banyat Cherdchim ◽  
...  

AbstractThis study aimed to reduce the loss of mechanical strength in heat-treated rubberwood by rapid cooling. Heat-treated rubberwood specimens were prepared by controlling their cooling rate during the cooling phase of the heat treatment. The effects of cooling rate on the physical properties, chemical composition, and mechanical properties of heat-treated rubberwood were evaluated. Results indicated that cooling rate significantly influenced mass loss (ML). ML in heat-treated rubberwood cooled at 6 °C min−1 decreased by 23% relative to that in heat-treated rubberwood subjected to natural cooling. Compared with the heat-treated rubberwood subjected to natural cooling, the heat-treated rubberwood that was cooled at 4.5 °C min−1 increased in modulus of rupture (MOR), surface hardness, and screw withdrawal strength (tangential section) by 26, 8, and 16%, respectively. The cool rates exerted less effects on the dimensional stability, surface color, modulus of elasticity (MOE), compressive strength parallel to grain (CS), and screw withdrawal strength (radial section) of the heat-treated rubberwood. The application of rapid cooling to wood heat treatment could efficiently shortened the heat treatment period, thus increasing productivity.


1983 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. F. Broderick ◽  
F. H. Froes ◽  
A. G. Jackson

ABSTRACTThe titanium alloys Ti-6A1-4V and Ti-11.5Mo-6.0Zr-4.5Sn (Beta III) were produced at cooling rates of 103°C/sec and 105°C/sec using the Rotating Electrode Process (REP), and the Electron Beam Splat Quenching (EBSQ) process, respectively. Material from both alloys examined in the as-produced, heat treated, and vacuum hot pressed (VHP) conditions exhibited an order of magnitude decrease in beta grain size with increasing cooling rate (~135 μm and 7 μm in the Ti-6A1-4V alloy; ~40 μm and 2–4 μm in the Beta III alloy), and a difference in aging response between REP powder and EBSQ flakes. After heat treatment the Ti-6A1-4V developed an alpha morphology which was lenticular in REP powder and equiaxed in EBSQ flakes. Three possible mechanisms are proposed to explain this change involving an increased dislocation density and a tendency for grain boundary allotriomorphic alpha in the EBSQ case. Heat treatment of the Ti-11.5Mo-6.0Zr-4.5Sn materials showed a change in the location of alpha precipitation from interdendritic to grain boundary in going from REP to EBSQ. It is suggested that this change may relate to the decreased solute redistribution which occurs in the more rapidly cooled material.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 909-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Blaoui ◽  
M. Zemri ◽  
A. Brahami

AbstractEngineering materials, mostly steel, are heat treated under controlled sequence of heating and cooling to alter their physical and mechanical properties to meet desired engineering applications. This paper presents a study of the influence of austenitization temperature, cooling rate, holding time and heating rate during the heat treatment on microstructure and mechanical properties (tensile strength, yield strength, elongation and hardness) of the C45 steel. Specimens undergoing different heat treatment lead to various mechanical properties which were determined using standard methods. Microstructural evolution was investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results revealed that microstructure and hardenability of the C45 steel depends on cooling rate, austenitization temperature, holding time and heating rate.


Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Xu ◽  
Claire Utton ◽  
Panos Tsakiropoulos

Alloying with Al, Cr, Sn, and Ti significantly improves the oxidation of Nb silicide-based alloys at intermediate and high temperatures. There is no agreement about what the concentration of Sn in the alloys should be. It has been suggested that with Sn ≤ 3 at.% the oxidation is improved and formation of the brittle A15-Nb3Sn compound is suppressed. Definite improvements in oxidation behaviour have been observed with 5 at.% Sn or even higher concentrations, up to 8 at.% Sn. The research reported in this paper is about three model alloys with low Sn concentration and nominal compositions Nb-24Ti-18Si-5Cr-2Sn (ZX3), Nb-24Ti-18Si-5Al-2Sn (ZX5), and Nb-24Ti-18Si-5Al-5Cr-2Sn (ZX7) that were studied to understand the effect of the 2 at.% Sn addition on as-cast and heat-treated microstructures and isothermal oxidation in air at 800 and 1200 °C for 100 h. There was macrosegregation of Si and Ti in the alloys ZX3 and ZX5 and only of Si in the alloy ZX7. The Nbss was stable in all alloys. Tin and Ti exhibited opposite partitioning behaviour in the Nbss. The βNb5Si3 was the primary phase in all three cast alloys and had partially transformed to αNb5Si3 in the alloy ZX3. Aluminium in synergy with Sn increased the sluggishness of the βNb5Si3 to αNb5Si3 transformation during solidification. After the heat treatment the transformation of βNb5Si3 to αNb5Si3 had been completed in all three alloys. Fine precipitates were observed inside some αNb5Si3 grains in the alloys ZX5 and ZX7. In the latter alloys the A15-Nb3X (X = Al, Si, and Sn) formed after the heat treatment, i.e., the synergy of Al and Sn promoted the stability of A15-Nb3X intermetallic in these Nb-silicide-based alloys even at this low Sn concentration. A Nbss + Nb5Si3 eutectic formed in all three alloys and there was evidence of anomalous eutectic in the parts of the alloys ZX3 and ZX7 that had solidified under high cooling rate and/or high melt undercooling. A very fine ternary Nbss + Nb5Si3 + NbCr2 eutectic was also observed in parts of the alloy ZX3 that had solidified under high cooling rate. At 800 °C none of the alloys suffered from catastrophic pest oxidation; ZX7 had a smaller oxidation rate constant. A thin Sn-rich layer formed continuously between the scale and Nbss in the alloys ZX3 and ZX5. At 1200 °C the scales formed on all three alloys spalled off, the alloys exhibited parabolic oxidation in the early stages followed by linear oxidation; the alloy ZX5 gave the smallest rate constant values. A thicker continuous Sn-rich zone formed between the scale and substrate in all three alloys. This Sn-rich zone was noticeably thicker near the corners of the specimen of the alloy ZX7 and continuous around the whole specimen. The Nb3Sn, Nb5Sn2Si, and NbSn2 compounds were observed in the Sn-rich zone. At both temperatures the scales formed on all three alloys consisted of Nb-rich and Nb and Si-rich oxides, and Ti-rich oxide also was formed in the scales of the alloys ZX3 and ZX7 at 1200 °C. The formation of a Sn-rich layer/zone did not prevent the contamination of the bulk of the specimens by oxygen, as both Nbss and Nb5Si3 were contaminated by oxygen, the former more severely than the latter.


2008 ◽  
Vol 587-588 ◽  
pp. 635-639
Author(s):  
Andersan S. Paula ◽  
Karimbi Koosappa Mahesh ◽  
C.M.L. Santos ◽  
Francisco Manuel Braz Fernandes ◽  
C.S.C. Viana

Shape memory effect (SME) in Nickel-Titanium (Ni-Ti) alloys is ascribed to the thermoelastic reversible martensite phase transformation. Phase transformation is established to be affected by the pre- thermal and mechanical history of the alloy. The present work deals with the effect of mechanical working, known as ‘marforming’ and ‘ausforming’, on the phase transformation characteristics and mechanical behaviour of Ti-rich Ni-Ti alloy. Tensile study and measurement of the hardness data were carried out at room temperature. Mere heat treatment or heat treatment at 773 K after the marforming shows similar characteristics, whereas, the as-received and the ausformed samples exhibit different behaviours. Hardness numbers of the heat treated samples are found to be smaller than those of the as-received and mechanically worked samples.


Author(s):  
R. Padmanabhan ◽  
W. E. Wood

Intermediate high temperature tempering prior to subsequent reaustenitization has been shown to double the plane strain fracture toughness as compared to conventionally heat treated UHSLA steels, at similar yield strength levels. The precipitation (during tempering) of metal carbides and their subsequent partial redissolution and refinement (during reaustenitization), in addition to the reduction in the prior austenite grain size during the cycling operation have all been suggested to contribute to the observed improvement in the mechanical properties. In this investigation, 300M steel was initially austenitized at 1143°K and then subjected to intermediate tempering at 923°K for 1 hr. before reaustenitizing at 1123°K for a short time and final tempering at 583°K. The changes in the microstructure responsible for the improvement in the properties have been studied and compared with conventionally heat treated steel. Fig. 1 shows interlath films of retained austenite produced during conventionally heat treatment.


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