APPLICATION OF MODELING IN THE QFORM VX 8.2 SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR DETERMINATION OF RATIONAL COOLING SPEEDS OF RAILWAY RIMS

The tests were performed on ER7 steel according to EN 13262. Based on the hardenability test (GOST 5657) by the method of end hardening (Jomen) the distance from the surface from which unilateral cooling was performed, where the hardness met the requirements of regulatory documentation for wheels of test steel, and the distance where the formation of needle structures, including bainite and otmanshtette, no longer took place. Simulation was applied in the software package QForm VX 8.2, as a result, a model was developed, for the adaptation of which the results of the experiment were used. Confirmed the high convergence of the results of the calculation and the experiment. At the same time, the model allowed to obtain an instantaneous cooling rate in a form that is more in line with the physical meaning of the process and to avoid the scatter of actual values associated with the discreteness of data capture. It is established that the instantaneous cooling rate changes in the process of continuous uniform supply of the cooler. The developed model can be used to build thermokinetic diagrams under continuous cooling and to develop recommendations for heat treatment modes to achieve the specified mechanical properties under a certain structural state.

Software Application of Material Structure Prediction

The developed software application allows the user to model phase transformations under isothermal conditions for a specified steel grade at arbitrary tempering temperature. Architecture of the software application using scheme of the chart of distributed computation of simulation model kinematic parameters for reducing time expenditures during computer experiments. The recognition algorithm of raster images on the isothermal and thermokinetic diagrams has been proposed. The imaging algorithm of the material structure after heat treatment have been developed.