Influence on the Microstructure of Pinion Steel with Different Cooling Rates after Normalizing

According to continuous cooling transformation curve of pinion steel, heat treatment simulation tests of 8 series were developed. The results show that the microstructure of pinion steel depends on the cooling rate after normalizing. Furnace cooling according to 30°C/h after normalizing can get the typical F+P organizations; Converter cooling after normalizing mixed with some bainite organizations; Furnace cooling with the break after normalizing can get clear stripped bainite organizations.

Continuous Cooling Transformation Behavior of X70 Pipeline Steel

The continuous cooling transformation behaviors were researched on X70 pipeline steel through two pass deformation and non-deformed austenite using Gleeble-3500 thermal mechanical simulator, and static continuous cooling transformation curve and dynamic continuous cooling transformation curve were measured through thermal dilation method and metallographic method. The influence of cooling rate and deformation parameters on microstructure was analyzed. The results show that the hot deformation accelerates the acicular ferrite and polygonal ferrite phase transformation, increases the starting transformation temperature and the finishing transformation temperature significantly, and shifts the CCT curve moving upward to the left side corner. Acicular ferrite is obtained in practice using accelerated cooling rate after deformation Acicular ferrite can be obtained in wider range of cooling rates, and microstructure and island structure is finer through hot deformation.

Method for Estimating the Critical Cooling Rate for Glass Formation from Isothermal TTT Data

A method is proposed for estimating the critical cooling rate for glass formation and continuous cooling transformation curve (CCT) from isothermal TTT data. The critical cooling rates and CCT curves for a group of lithium disilicate glasses containing different amount of Pt as nucleating agent estimated through this method are compared with the experimentally measured values and it shows this method can give a reasonable estimation.