Heat Treatment of Metals ›› 2022, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (9): 202-207.DOI: 10.13251/j.issn.0254-6051.2022.09.035

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Continuous cooling transformation behavior of high strength bridge steel Q690q

Zhou Wenhao   

  1. Technology and Quality Department, Hunan Valin Xiangtan Iron and Steel Co. , Ltd. , Xiangtan Hunan 411101, China
  • Received:2022-05-30 Revised:2022-07-29 Published:2022-10-18

Abstract: Continuous cooling transformation behaviors of high strength bridge steel Q690q were studied under three different primary austenite states of fine-grained austenite (grain size of grade 10), coarse-grained austenite (grain size of grade 6.5) and fine-grained deformed austenite (grain size of grade 10.5 and 30% compression deformation) by means of MMS-200 thermo simulator, Imager M2m optical microscope, JSM-6490LV scanning electron microscope and FV-ARS9000 automatic Vickers hardness tester. The results show that when the cooling rate is the same, fine-grained austenite increases phase transformation starting temperature, transformation rate peak temperature and phase transformation finishing temperature, while coarse-grained austenite contributes to the formation of medium and low temperature structures, such as lath bainite and lath martensite, and the lath becomes more elongated, but the prior austenite grain boundary becomes clearer, and its hardness obviously improves. Meanwhile, after the fine grain austenite deformation, the phase transformation starting temperature and transformation rate peak temperature are higher, so that the ferrite becomes bulky, but that can reduce the pearlite transformation and promote the formation of carbon-free bainite, and the hardness is greater than the condition of fine-grained austenite at lower cooling rate, and there is no difference when the cooling rate is higher.

Key words: bridge steel Q690q, controlled cooling, microstructure, phase transformation

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