Heat Treatment of Metals ›› 2021, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (7): 229-232.DOI: 10.13251/j.issn.0254-6051.2021.07.044

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Fracture cause analysis of W6Mo5Cr4V2Al high speed steel twist drill

Song Quan, Dan Ting, Li Xiaoguang, Gao Mingsen, Cao Huihui   

  1. Capital Aerospace Machinery Corporation Limited, Beijing 100076, China
  • Received:2021-02-14 Online:2021-07-25 Published:2021-12-10

Abstract: Fracture causes of W6Mo5Cr4V2Al high speed steel (HSS) twist drill were studied by means of chemical composition examination, OM, SEM and EDS. The results show that the overheating and overburning of the twist drill caused in the heat treatment processes lead to grain boundary melting, eutectic ledeburite and a large number of reticulated carbides in the matrix, and high tensile stress formed on the drill surface in the cooling process leads to intergranular crack to appear when the stress is higher than the fracture strength of the material, finally the action of external force in the subsequent correction process causes the fracture of the drill.

Key words: high speed steel, overheating, overburning, intergranular crack, fracture

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