Material phase transformation at high heating rate during grinding

Abstract

The modeling of maraging steel phase transformation in grinding process is presented in this article. Specifically, heating rate and contact zone temperature are examined to quantitatively link material properties, wheel topography characteristics and process parameters to the kinetics of diffusion-controlled transformation and diffusionless transformation. Physics-based modeling and prediction for the volume fractions of phase transformation in continuous heating under anisothermal conditions are developed based upon the addition of volume fractions in sequential segmented isothermal processes of grinding. The predictive model is validated by 18Ni (250) maraging steel grinding experiments, X-ray diffraction measurements and regression analyses.Results are compared to the model predicted of martensite and ferrite phase volume fractions after grinding. The physics-based model is experimentally validated as viable to predict the occurrence and extent of phase transformation related to material properties, wheel topography and grinding thermal-mechanical loading. Finally, correlation analysis is used to quantify the importance of the input variables to both model-predicted and X-ray diffraction measured phase transformation results.