scholarly journals X-ray Determination of Compressive Residual Stresses in Spring Steel Generated by High-Speed Water Quenching

Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1154
Author(s):  
Diego E. Lozano ◽  
George E. Totten ◽  
Yaneth Bedolla-Gil ◽  
Martha Guerrero-Mata ◽  
Marcel Carpio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Spring Steel ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Laboratory Equipment ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Water Chamber ◽  
Hardened Case ◽  
Compressive Residual Stresses

Automotive components manufacturers use the 5160 steel in leaf and coil springs. The industrial heat treatment process consists in austenitizing followed by the oil quenching and tempering process. Typically, compressive residual stresses are induced by shot peening on the surface of automotive springs to bestow compressive residual stresses that improve the fatigue resistance and increase the service life of the parts after heat treatment. In this work, a high-speed quenching was used to achieve compressive residual stresses on the surface of AISI/SAE 5160 steel samples by producing high thermal gradients and interrupting the cooling in order to generate a case-core microstructure. A special laboratory equipment was designed and built, which uses water as the quenching media in a high-speed water chamber. The severity of the cooling was characterized with embedded thermocouples to obtain the cooling curves at different depths from the surface. Samples were cooled for various times to produce different hardened case depths. The microstructure of specimens was observed with a scanning electron microscope (SEM). X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to estimate the magnitude of residual stresses on the surface of the specimens. Compressive residual stresses at the surface and sub-surface of about −700 MPa were obtained.

Interaction of Load and Residual Stresses in Sintered 1.3344 High Speed Steel

2014 ◽  
Vol 1018 ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
Berend Denkena ◽  
Thilo Grove ◽  
Henning Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Stress State ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Applied Load ◽  
High Speed Steel ◽  
Cold Forging ◽  
Grinding Process ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Compressive Residual Stresses

Compressive residual stresses enhance cold forging tool lifetime. These stresses can be induced during the grinding process of the tool manufacturing. To use residual stresses induced by grinding it must be understood how load and residual stresses interact in ground and unground sub-surface zones. This has been studied with specimen from powder metallurgically produced 1.3344 high-speed steel. Residual stresses in the specimen where measured through x-ray diffraction in ground and unground conditions and under various applied load stresses. Residual stresses and load stresses sum up directly proportional at lower stresses, while at higher stresses a saturated stress state is achieved and the whole material deforms plastically.

Hardening of Selective Laser Melted M2 Steel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Yang ◽  
Yishu Zhang ◽  
Haoxing You ◽  
Richard Smith ◽  
Richard D. Sisson
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Cutting Tools ◽  
High Speed Steel ◽  
High Hardness ◽  
Steel Part ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Heat Treated ◽  
Near Net Shape

Abstract Selective laser melting (SLM) is an additive manufacturing technique that can be used to make the near-net-shape metal parts. M2 is a high-speed steel widely used in cutting tools, which is due to its high hardness of this steel. Conventionally, the hardening heat treatment process, including quenching and tempering, is conducted to achieve the high hardness for M2 wrought parts. It was debated if the hardening is needed for additively manufactured M2 parts. In the present work, the M2 steel part is fabricated by SLM. It is found that the hardness of as-fabricated M2 SLM parts is much lower than the hardened M2 wrought parts. The characterization was conducted including X-ray diffraction (XRD), optical microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) to investigate the microstructure evolution of as-fabricated, quenched, and tempered M2 SLM part. The M2 wrought part was heat-treated simultaneously with the SLM part for comparison. It was found the hardness of M2 SLM part after heat treatment is increased and comparable to the wrought part. Both quenched and tempered M2 SLM and wrought parts have the same microstructure, while the size of the carbides in the wrought part is larger than that in the SLM part.

Investigation of Residual Stresses in a Sleeve Coldworked Lug Specimen by Neutron and X-ray Diffraction

1994 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 455-461
Author(s):  
R. Lin ◽  
B. Jaensson ◽  
T. M. Holden ◽  
R. B. Rogge ◽  
J. H. Root
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Fatigue Cracks ◽  
Fatigue Properties ◽  
Aircraft Industry ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Initiation And Propagation ◽  
Structural Parts ◽  
Compressive Residual Stresses

Sleeve coldworking (SCW) is a mechanical process used in the aircraft industry to strengthen fastener holes of structural parts. By cold-expanding the holes, compressive residual stresses and a high dislocation density are introduced around the holes, the effect of which is to counteract the initiation and propagation of fatigue cracks and thus increase the fatigue life of the parts. The knowledge of residual stress due to SCW is therefore crucial for assessing the fatigue properties of a treated part. In this study, residual stresses were investigated, by employing neutron and X-ray diffraction methods, in a lug specimen that was sleeve coldworked and fatigued. The specimen had been used for testing the influence of the SCW process on fatigue life and crack propagation behaviour under constant amplitude or variable amplitude cyclic loading.

Effect of Nozzle-Traveling Velocity on Oil Cavitation Jet Peening of Aluminum Alloy, AA 6063-T6

2007 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Sahaya Grinspan ◽  
R. Gnanamoorthy
Keyword(s):  
Aluminum Alloy ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Cavitation Number ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Compressive Stresses ◽  
Modification Process ◽  
Oil Jet ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Compressive Residual Stresses

A new surface modification process was developed to introduce compressive residual stresses at the surface of components. In this process, instead of oil droplets a high-velocity cavitation jet (cloud of oil bubbles) impinges on the surface of the component to be peened. The impact pressure generated during implosion of cavitation bubbles causes severe plastic deformation at the surface. Consequently, beneficial compressive stresses are developed at the surface. In order to find the potential of this process, aluminum alloy AA6063-T6 specimens were peened at a constant cavitation number with various nozzle-traveling velocities. Residual stress induced by oil jet cavitation peening was measured using X-ray diffraction. Oil cavitation jet peening results in a smooth and hard surface. The developed compressive residual stresses at the peened surface are about 52%, 42%, and 35% of yield strength in samples for peened at nozzle traveling velocities of 0.05mm∕s, 0.10mm∕s, and 0.15mm∕s, respectively.

Residual Stresses in Locally Long Fiber Reinforced Aluminum Parts

2011 ◽  
Vol 284-286 ◽  
pp. 284-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shao Chun Sun ◽  
Zhi Yuan Chen ◽  
Qiang Wu ◽  
De Xin Ma ◽  
Yu Tao Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Aluminum Alloy ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Tensile Residual Stress ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Fem Method ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Compressive Residual Stresses

In locally long fiber reinforced aluminum parts two types residual stresses exist. They are the microscopic residual stress between fiber and matrix and the macroscopic residual stress between reinforced and unreinforced zones. The residual stresses between fiber and matrix in γ-Al2O3 long fiber reinforced aluminum alloy Al-6-1-1 were measured with X-ray Diffraction process as well as simulated with FEM method. The results indicated that the residual stresses in both fiber and matrix were distributed very unequally. The maximum tensile residual stress occurred at the boundary in the matrix and the maximum compressive residual stresses occurred near the boundary in the fiber. The macroscopic residual stresses between the reinforced and unreinforced zones were also measured with borehole method as well as simulated with FEM. It was found that the macroscopic residual stresses at most locations in both the reinforced and unreinforced zones were not harmfully high. However in both reinforced and unreinforced zones there were small sub-zones of very large tensile residual stresses.

Diffusion and Transformation of Eutectic Carbides in High-Speed Steels during Heat Treatment

2009 ◽  
Vol 283-286 ◽  
pp. 273-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Chaus ◽  
Matej Beznák
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
Final Heat Treatment ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Eutectic Carbides ◽  
Structure And Phase Transformations ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
Quenching And Tempering

The structure and phase composition of high-speed steels of different grades after casting, annealing, and subsequent final heat treatment (quenching and tempering) have been studied focusing on diffusion processes. In order to investigate kinetics of both the structure and phase transformations in eutectic carbides upon heat treatments, different techniques of optical microscopy, electron microscopy (both scanning and transmission ones), X-ray diffraction, and energy dispersive X-ray analysis have been used.

Residual Stress Characterization of A7N01-T5 Welds for High Speed Train by X-Ray Diffraction and Verification

2011 ◽  
Vol 291-294 ◽  
pp. 896-900
Author(s):  
Hua Ji ◽  
Guo Qing Gou ◽  
Hui Chen ◽  
Da Li ◽  
Chuan Ping Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
High Speed ◽  
High Speed Train ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Good Qualitative Agreement ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Method Show

Welding residual stresses have an effect on many aspects of the integrity of structures but are normally one of the largest unknown stresses. Residual stresses are difficult to measure and to estimate theoretically but are often significant when compared with the service stresses. In this paper, measurement of residual stresses by X-ray diffraction technique using two different fitting methods (Gaussian and PearsonⅦ) was compared with analysis of a sample geometry by theoretical finite-element methods. The square map RS characterization of A7N01-T5 welds was shown. The results indicate RS measured by XRD and simulated by finite-element method show good qualitative agreement.

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