Enhanced Welding Properties of High Strength Steel via Rare Earth Oxide Metallurgy Technology

doi:10.11900/0412.1961.2020.00052

Acta Metall Sin

2020, Vol. 56

Issue (9): 1206-1216 DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2020.00052

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Enhanced Welding Properties of High Strength Steel via Rare Earth Oxide Metallurgy Technology

LU Bin¹^,²^,³, CHEN Furong¹(

), ZHI Jianguo²^,³, GENG Ruming⁴

1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China
2 Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Union Co. , Ltd. , Baotou 014010, China
3 Inner Mongolia Enterprise Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Steel Products Research and Development, Baotou 014010, China
4 State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

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LU Bin, CHEN Furong, ZHI Jianguo, GENG Ruming. Enhanced Welding Properties of High Strength Steel via Rare Earth Oxide Metallurgy Technology. Acta Metall Sin, 2020, 56(9): 1206-1216.

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Abstract

With the increase of the strength of steel plate, the welding performance of the steel decreases sharply and the welding crack susceptibility increases. The properties of welding heat-affected zone of high strength steel lower with increasing the welding heat input. The present work aims to improve the toughness of welding heat-affected zone by rare earth oxide metallurgy technology. The effect of 5×10^-6 and 23×10^-6 rare earth Ce on the impact toughness, microstructure, austenite grains of heat-affected zone and fracture morphology of welded joint were studied. When the steel contains 5×10^-6 rare earth Ce, the inclusions are MgO-Al₂O₃ spinels surrounded with a small amount of CeAlO₃ inclusions. In the case of the steel with 23×10^-6Ce, Ce can completely modify MgO-Al₂O₃ inclusions, resulting in the formation of (CeCa)S+MgO-Al₂O₃+MnS complex inclusions. The simulation welding of high strength steel was performed. The results show that the Charpy impact energy of heat-affected zone of the steel with 23×10^-6Ce is higher at four different heat inputs, in comparison with the steel with 5×10^-6Ce. The microstructure analysis shows that the fracture morphology of heat-affected zone of the steel with 23×10^-6Ce appears dimples, which is an indication of a higher toughness. With increasing the heat input from 25 kJ/cm to 100 kJ/cm, the average grain size of the original austenite in the heat-affected zones of the steels with 5×10^-6Ce and 23×10^-6Ce was increased by 75.6% and 52.4%, respectively. It indicates that the growth of the original austenite grain during welding is suppressed with increasing the Ce content in the steel. Comparison of the microstructure shows that rare earth Ce can delay the formation of upper bainite structure in the heat-affected zone. Through the high temperature confocal microscope, it was observed that the rare earth inclusions pinned on the original austenite grain boundary, which can effectively restrain the grain growth during the welding process. It provides an evidence showing the mechanism of improvement in the heat-affected zone in the welding of the high strength steel by rare earth Ce. The present study demonstrates the rare earth oxide metallurgy can improve the weldability of the high strength steel.

Key words: high strength steel heat-affected zone (HAZ) oxide metallurgy rare earth

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Table 1 Chemical compositions of high strength steel with different Ce contents

Fig.1 SEM image and EDS analyses of typical inclusions MgO-Al₂O₃+(CaMn)S+CeAlO₃ in 5Ce steel

Table 2 Mechanical properties of high strength steel with different Ce contents

Fig.2 SEM image and EDS analyses of typical inclusions (CeCa)S+MgO-Al₂O₃+MnS in 23Ce steel

Table 3 Parameters of simulated welding thermal cycle

Fig.3 Thermal simulation process of heat-affacted zone (HAZ)

Fig.4 Impact energies of HAZ under different heat inputs at room temperature

Fig.5 OM images of HAZ in 5Ce steel under heat inputs of 25 kJ/cm (a), 50 kJ/cm (b), 75 kJ/cm (c) and 100 kJ/cm (d)

Fig.6 OM images of HAZ in 23Ce steel under heat inputs of 25 kJ/cm (a), 50 kJ/cm (b), 75 kJ/cm (c) and 100 kJ/cm (d)

Fig.7 SEM fractographs of 5Ce steel under heat inputs of 25 kJ/cm (a), 50 kJ/cm (b), 75 kJ/cm (c) and 100 kJ/cm (d)

Fig.8 SEM fractographs of 23Ce steel under heat inputs of 25 kJ/cm (a), 50 kJ/cm (b), 75 kJ/cm (c) and 100 kJ/cm (d)

Fig.9 OM images of HAZ original austenite grain in 5Ce steel under heat inputs of 25 kJ/cm (a), 50 kJ/cm (b), 75 kJ/cm (c) and 100 kJ/cm (d)

Table 4 Grain sizes of original austenite in HAZ under different heat inputs

Fig.10 OM images of HAZ original austenite grain in 23Ce steel under heat inputs of 25 kJ/cm (a), 50 kJ/cm (b), 75 kJ/cm (c) and 100 kJ/cm (d)

Fig.11 High temperature confocal observation results of 23Ce steel (Original grain bounaries (dashed lines) move in the direction of arrows)

Table 5 Holding time of 23Ce steel at different temperatures under different heat inputs

Fig.12 SEM images and EDS analyses of inclusions in 23Ce steel after electrolysis

Fig.13 SEM images and EDS of carbonitride in 23Ce steel after electrolysis

Fig.14 SEM images and EDS analyses of Ce-contained inclusions in 23Ce steel after electrolysis

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