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Acta Metall Sin  2017, Vol. 53 Issue (3): 325-334    DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2016.00282
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Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of LaserForming Repaired 300M Steel
Fenggang LIU,Xin LIN(),Kan SONG,Menghua SONG,Yifan HAN,Weidong HUANG
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
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Fenggang LIU,Xin LIN,Kan SONG,Menghua SONG,Yifan HAN,Weidong HUANG. Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of LaserForming Repaired 300M Steel. Acta Metall Sin, 2017, 53(3): 325-334.

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Abstract  

Laser forming repairing (LFR) technology is developed from the laser additive manufacturing, which has a high potential in high strength steel structures' repairing. 300M steel has been widely used in aviation and aerospace vehicles, to provide a high strength for aircraft landing gear and high strength bolts components, which in turn leads to a quick damage due to the severe service environment. If these damaged components can be repaired rapidly, the considerable savings in materials and costs can be achieved. In this work, the microstructure and mechanical properties of the LFRed 300M steel have been investigated. Results showed that the LFRed area can be clearly divided into three areas: the substrate zone (SZ), heat affected zone (HAZ) and repaired zone (RZ). The SZ was consisted of the mixture of martensite, bainite and a small amount of retained austenite. The HAZ presented an uneven martensite. The RZ presented an obvious heterogeneous microstructure, and the bainite, the mixture of martensite and bainite, and tempered martensite from the top to the bottom. After heat treatment, the microstructure became uniform with mixed tempered martensite and bainite. The tensile strength of the as-deposited LFRed 300M steel was far lower than those of the substrate. Its tensile strength and yield strength were 1459 MPa and 1163 MPa, respectively. After heat treatment, tensile strength (1965 MPa), yield strength (1653 MPa), elongation (11.7%) and reduction of area (38.4%) increased significantly and reached the same level of the substrate. Furthermore, compared to the as-deposited sample, the local strain of the RZ increased to 53% after heat treatment, and an obvious necking and breaking up happened as well. The strain hardening exponent of SZ and RZ were 0.1548 and 0.1138, which could be closely related to the compatible deformation capability.

Key words:  laser forming repairing      laser additive manufacturing      300M steel      microstructure      mechanical property      stress and strain distribution     
Received:  05 July 2016     
Fund: Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.51323008, 51475380 and 51501154) and Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities of China (No.08040)

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https://www.ams.org.cn/EN/10.11900/0412.1961.2016.00282     OR     https://www.ams.org.cn/EN/Y2017/V53/I3/325

Fig.1  Schematics of the intercepting (a) and processing (b) of tensile samples (unit: mm, RZ—repaired zone, SZ—substrate zone)
Fig.2  Microstructures of different areas in as-deposited laser forming repaired (LFRed) 300M steel (Insets show the changes of content of bainite)
(a) top of the RZ
(b) middle-upper of the RZ
(c) middle-lower of the RZ
(d) bottom of the RZ
(e) heat affected zone (HAZ)
(f) SZ
Fig.3  Schematics of temperature field evolution of different areas in as-deposited samples (a) and microstructures' formation (b) (M—martensite, B—bainite, Bl—lower bainite, Bu—upper bainite)
Fig.4  XRD spectra of different areas in heat-treated LFRed 300M steel
Fig.5  Microstructures of different areas in heat-treated LFRed 300M steel


(a) top of the RZ
(b) middle-upper of the RZ
(c) middle-lower of the RZ
(d) bottom of the RZ
(e) HAZ
(f) SZ(g) low magnification microstructure of the RZ
(h) low magnification microstructure of the SZ

Fig.6  Fractographies of LFRed 300M steel with different conditions
(a) macro-fractography of as-deposited
(b) high magnified image of zone 1 in Fig.6a, showing the crack initiation of as-deposited (Inset shows the low magnification of crack initiation region)
(c) high magnified image of zone 2 in Fig.6a, showing the radial area of as-deposited
(d) macro-fractography of heat-treated
(e) high magnified image of zone 1 in Fig.6d, showing the crack initiation of heat-treated
(f) high magnified image of zone 2 in Fig.6d, showing the fiber area of heat-treated
Fig.7  Stress-strain curve of the as-deposited tensile samples (a), strain distributions along the central line during tensile loading of the specimen (b), and the corresponding localized strain distributions for the same tensile specimen at S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 and S6 (c)
Fig.8  Stress-strain curve of the heat-treated tensile samples (a), strain distributions along the central line during tensile loading of the specimen (b), and the corresponding localized strain distributions for the same tensile specimen at S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 and S6 (c)
Sample Tensile Yield Elongation Reduction Fracture location
strength strength % of area
MPa MPa %
Forging standard ≥1925 ≥1630 ≥12.5 ≥50.6 -
Substrate 1993 1624 12.1 41.2 -
As-deposited LFRed 1459±11 1163±73 5.8±0.8 14.6±0.3 Repaired zone
Heat-treated LFRed 1965±12 1653±4 11.7±0.6 38.4±3.2 Repaired zone
Table 1  Room temperature mechanical properties with different conditions of 300M steel
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