Influence of eutectic phase precipitation on cracking susceptibility during forging of a martensitic stainless steel for turbine shaft applications

Dourandish, S.; Jahazi, Mohammad; Ebrahimi, Ghanbar; Ebacher, L.

doi:10.1016/j.jmrt.2021.04.075

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“…One of the key fields is undoubtedly power engineering, especially renewable sources, where heavy and long forgings are used, for example, for rotor shafts of wind turbines [10][11][12][13][14]. The input semifinished product for the production of these shafts is heavy steel ingots, in which there may be problems with achieving the required internal quality due to the occurrence of a very inhomogeneous and coarse-grained structure [15][16][17][18]. immersion nozzles occurs during steel casting with oxides of these elements.…”

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The Effect of Rare Earth Metals Alloying on the Internal Quality of Industrially Produced Heavy Steel Forgings

Jonšta

Brožová

et al. 2021

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The paper presented the findings obtained by industrial research and experimental development on the use of rare earth metals (REMs) in the production of heavy steel ingots and their impact on the internal quality of the 42CrMo4 grade steel forging. REMs alloying was carried out after vacuuming the steel. A relatively large melting loss of cerium (about 50%) and its further decrease in casting due to reoxidation were observed. Refinement of structure and better mechanical properties of forged bar containing about 0.02 wt.% of Ce compared to that of the standard production were not achieved. The wind power shaft with content of about 0.06 wt.% of Ce showed high amount of REM inclusions, which were locally chained, and in some cases, initiated cracks. Four stoichiometrically different types of REM inclusions were detected in forgings, namely (La-Ce)2O2S + (La-Ce)O2 + SiO2 (minority); oxygen, phosphorus, arsenic, and antimony bound to lanthanum and cerium probably bonded with iron oxides La + Ce, MgO, Al2O3 a SiO2; (La-Ce)2O2S, FeO, SiO2, and CaO or CaS.

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