Avaliação dos micromecanismos de fratura de um aço microligado ao Ti e Nb em algumas condições microestruturais

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1997

RESUMO

The microalloyed steels are being utilized for substituting conventional structural steels and it leads to the necessity of improvement of its mechanical properties, mostly the strength/toughness relationship. It is known that these properties are related to the fracture micromechanisms when rupture occurs and this work s purpose is to characterize and analise the fracture micromechanisms of a low carbon Ti/Nb microalloyed steel in some microstructural conditions. The steel was tested in the following conditions: as-received-CF, normalized at two diferent temperatures (1193K-Nl, 1223K-N2), austempered at 643K from intercritical austenitization at 1043K-A77, and quenched from two diferent temperatures that are 1043K and 1083K-T81; for 1043K, two distinct routes were taken: "from room temperature-quench"-T77 - the specimens were heated to 1043K from room temperature and quenched; "from full austenitization-quench"-Td77 - The specimens were heated to 1193K from room temperature, cooled to 1043K and then quenched. The fracture surfaces obtained from the tensile, CTOD and Charpy impact tests were observed. The tensile specimens showed a trend of smaller dimples with raising tensile strength, mostly when shifting from ferriticperlitic structure to ferritic-martensitic structure. AlI the CTOD fracture surfaces were also completely dimpled with the T77 condition being the only exception, showing a few clivage facets. Against the expectations, the Charpy impact tests were more sensitive than CTOD tests not only when analizing the fracture micromechanisms but also when analizing numeric results: the T77 Charpy impact test fracture surfaces showed a remarkable number of clivage facets while the Td77 fracture surfaces showed only slight evidence

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fractografia aço - fratura

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