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Published on: March 7, 2018
Enhanced Fatigue Limit in Ultrafine-Grained Ferritic-Martensitic Steel
Marina A Nikitina1,2, Rinat K Islamgaliev1, Artur V Ganeev1
1Institute of Physics of Advanced Materials, Ufa University of Science and Technology, 32 Zaki Validi Str., 450076 Ufa, Russia.
Abstract:
The influence of the ultrafine-grained (UFG) structure on the fatigue endurance limit and the nature of fatigue failure have been studied. It is shown that the formation of the UFG structure containing carbides and the coincidence site lattice relationship (CSL) and twin boundaries leads to an increase in the fatigue endurance limit. To study the mechanisms of fatigue failure, scanning and transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis were used. Studies have shown that the formation of the UFG structure as a result of rolling and subsequent heat treatment above the temperature of the ferrite/austenite phase transition leads to an increase in the fatigue endurance limit by more than 70%, from 475 to 800 MPa, compared to coarse-grained samples. The dynamic aging observed during fatigue tests was more pronounced in materials with a UFG microstructure. The influence of the CSL and twin boundaries on the nature of the fatigue failure of ferritic-martensitic steel is discussed.
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