Research using electronic microscope was carried out to study the structural and phase and deflected mode of material of hot-forged billets. It was revealed that the scalar density of dislocations in ferritic grains and in ferritic perlite layers of forging steel which cracked after manufacturing operations is one and a half time higher than in conditions material. Metal in this condition has higher content of sulfide of plate-type morphology. It has established that the reason of unwanted structural and phase condition is high carbon content, which lead to overheat of metal both in plastic working and final heat treatment.Keywords -perlite, globular modifications, optical metallography, structure, heat treatment.
I. INTRODUCTIONThe most important physical factors determining the structural strength of steel products are: the type of defect substructure, morphology of the major components of the phase, morphology and crystal-chemical nature of the precipitates of secondary phases, the value of long-range internal stresses. They largely determine the susceptibility to cracking of blanks and finished products during hot forging [1].Comparative electron-microscopic study of the fine structure of steel St52.3N (an analog of the Russian steel 17 1 ) of the conditional (state I) and cracked after the manufacturing operations (state II), forging a transmission microscope -125K in the bright and dark field. Determined by the type of dislocation substructure in ferrite grains and ferrite interlayer of pearlite, the structure of pearlite colonies, shape, size, location and composition of particles of secondary phases, the level of long-range internal stresses.Preliminary analysis of the mechanical properties [2] showed that if the strength characteristics of both states are located on the same level, the state II is characterized by low plasticity. On fractures formed during the impact test, in this state, there are significant areas of brittle fracture. Standard metallographic studies revealed [2] that in both states steel is ferrite-pearlite aggregate. Perlite is presented as a plate and globular modifications. In both states the size as the ferrite grains, pearlite colonies and did not significantly differ. In the ferrite grains are observed separation of the secondary phases, and the pearlite colonies and at the interfaces -the pore size of 10 microns. Condition II has high porosity by 5-7% higher content of perlite and coarser structure of the latter.