Effect Of Accelerating Cooling On Microstructure And Toughness Of HAZ Of X70 Pipeline Steel
YU Shaofei; QIAN Bainian; GUO Xuming
Institute of Metal Research; The Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shenyang 110016
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YU Shaofei; QIAN Bainian; GUO Xuming. Effect Of Accelerating Cooling On Microstructure And Toughness Of HAZ Of X70 Pipeline Steel. Acta Metall Sin, 2005, 41(4): 401-406 .
Abstract Based on the effect of accelerating cooling on the microstructure and
properties of thermo--mechanical control process (TMCP) steel, we
proposed to adopt this method for improvement of heat affect zone (HAZ)
toughness of X70 pipeline steel. The results of simulated experiment
and actual weldment indicate that at appropriate accelerating cooling
rate the M--A constituent in HAZ is reduced obviously in amount and
replaced by tough austenite films.
Coarse bainitic sheaves were obtained when jetting water directly to
the sample and the toughness is not improved. Accelerating cooling with
appropriate cooling rate is a
simple and efficient method to improve the HAZ toughness.