The Effect of Cooling Conditions on Martensite Transformation Temperature and Hardness of 15% Cr Chromium Cast Iron

Abstract

The research reported in the paper concerned the conditions of cooling high-chromium cast iron with about 15% Cr content capable to ensure completeness of transformation of supercooled austenite into martensite in order to obtain high hardness value of the material and thus its high resistance to abrasive wear. For testing, castings were prepared with dimensions 120 mm × 100 mm × 15 mm cast in sand molds in which one of cavity surfaces was reproduced with chills. From the castings, specimens for dilatometric tests were taken with dimensions 4 mm × 4 mm × 16 mm and plates with dimensions 50 mm × 50 mm × 15 mm for heat treatment tests. The dilatometric specimens were cut out from areas subject to interaction with the chill. The austenitizing temperature and time were 1000 °C and 30 min, respectively. Dilatograms of specimens quenched in liquid nitrogen were used to determine martensite transformation start and finish temperatures TMs and TMf, whereas from dilatograms of specimens quenched in air and in water, only TMs was red out. To secure completeness of the course of transformation of supercooled austenite into martensite and reveal the transformation finish temperature, it was necessary to continue cooling of specimens in liquid nitrogen. It has been found that TMs depended strongly on the quenching method whereas TMf values were similar for each of the adopted cooling conditions. The examined cooling variants were used to develop a heat treatment process allowing to obtain hardness of 68 HRC.

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