iby 22 AGO MW Doc. IX- 3156-60 Fete Mares Flcoforad Asbelle Effect. of Martensite-Austenite Constituent on HAZ Toughness of a Ligh Strength Steel DMT Tip (oa ne ABM LOD “IB Y/ELL 4 PreeeeeerreecHaeitaca FATURA- 8433 ° by Hiroshi IKAWA ‘The Osaka Institute of ‘Technolog Asahi-ku, Osaka, Japan Miroaki OSNIG! Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan PRESS KOGYO CO, LTD. Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan July 1980ae Effect of Martensite-Austenite Constituent on JAZ 'Loughness of a High Strength Steel by Hiroshi ICAWA, 11 aki OSHIGE and Toyoaki TANOUE, Abstract Conse of the les of tees HAL of igh stent sel teas brestigated metals fron. the se Moir trdis etsved ve 1 fll. (1) MGA content is fed fiom the eustenit whic carb has been condnsed fp to 0.5-0.8 Aunstiite (MoA) continent. nt of Mentos: codons coking. ud is eaten ens of fs anata, ath mastensite ard ttaned estate, (2) Fnpid toss of toss with an increased eoling tine is erie by affearanee end wcvene of SoA evsient, (8) The eaten ofthe harafelofec of MA couttunt on tovglnss dceass as esting tne intnus. (8) Phir Haan ees i mitigated by leo tepertare (= 250°C) tering, 1, Introduction Lass of toughness in coarse grain HAZ is one of ‘the most important problems in welding of high strength stecls. Especially, loss of toughness is scvere in ease of large heat input welding. ‘Therefore, various hinds of steck for large heat input welding have been developed", Tt is said that the main factors of this loss of tough ness are a coarsening of the structure and the formed structure itself. Austenite grain near the fasion line is very coarse, but the effect of heat input on grain site near the fusion line is not so large that it eannot ‘account for severe loss of toughness in large heat i welding! However, the effective grain size may yarp when the transformed structure varies, even if austenite grain size is identical, On the other hand, micros ely investigated. However, effect of ti in HAZ on toughness has not been made ecially, it is said. that martensite-austenite vent (ako called high carbon nrart (ALA) con: 1) formed in HAZ has a significant effect on towgh- nes, However, the true nature of this cons tucnt and its effect on toughness of HAZ is not known well. With this in considera high tensile stcel was investi iewpoints of M-A constituer touginess of HAZ of ed mainly from the and effective grain 2 Material used and experimental method * class high Chemical composition of the #0 kg/m strength sicel used is shown in Table Le Some examples of simuated HAZ thermal cycles applied using icy induction heating ap- Poratus are shown in Fig, 1. Peak temperature was 1350°C: and cooling time from GOV 10 S0O"C (40) ‘Tobte 1 Cheiniesl composition of steel used (wt $6) Coating time trom 900% fsee) Fig. 1 Some examples of simulated thermal eyeles applied was varied from 6 to 700 sec. As will be shown in later sections, cooling condition below 500°C abo exerts some influence on toughness, therefore the temperature was controlled until it fell to 200" ‘Thermal cycles were determined based on heat con- duction equation in weldin Microstructure was observed by scanning electron, microscope (SEM} and transmission electron mi- eroscope (FEM). In the fortner case, the fallow two step electrolytic etching was used in order to distinguish between M-A constituent and carbidl ‘Phe electrolyte for the first exching was EDTA (ei lenediamine tetraacetic acid) 5g, sodiam (Nak) 0.5g and distilled water’ 100 ml. Trchi condition was 3V, 3sce: Ry this etching, ferrite is etched but M-A constituent and carbide remain w etched. “The electrolyte for the second etching was rc) acid 5g, sodinm hydroxide (NaOH) 25g and d tilled water 100ml and ctching condition was 6V',«2 ng, _carbitles were pre~ ine_slep 30 sce: By. ily etched, this second_e1 ong, alter the. Shing mentale, Nit comstiot_ae cinlonsed and carbides ae depres of Terriie. Tnthls siate, M-A consti bide can he easily identified by SEN ‘Thin crystals for ‘TEM were prepared wsing the electrolyte of chrom 25g, acetic acid 133 ml and distilled water 7 mh, ‘Toughness was evahiated by 50% cleavage feac- ture appearance transition temperature (VTts) of Venotch Charpy impact test of half size specimens {%5255 min, | mm notch). 3, Results and discusstons 31 General microstructure snnadan Da Mtn sls a Pinte Types naa t)hitt ype siete (Or (0) Mat ype (8 oe) fe) M1 type sntue (002250) Pease eee eee Photo. 2 Typical scanning sleet picresteuctares shes (@) oogated AEN senntinueat te sete fvsive MA eonstitorat (SF “iOsee) an fe) de composed structise (JI Ture) rontnuctune is classified ints (ov) structmes. to BL, BU and “Thaw general sense, ani martensite (M) and interned And Zs can be Farther el BIL types as propased before”, Jn BIT type structite, a tot of fine carbides are observed inside the ferrite Laths sts shown in Photo, (@). ‘This pe of strucuie does nut always exit pendently, For example, Photo, 1h). shows i tmieostrucime of the region in whieh MA eon: stituents (ohserveel_ as white rods) consist wi les. AS will be stituent is found in BL type this kind of is comidered to be a mixes line,