Influência do tratamento térmico de homogeneização na microestrutura de um aço utilizado na fabricação de cilindros de laminação para trabalho a frio

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Luis Fernando Marini [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/127924; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/10-09-2015/000846834.pdf
• topic: Aço - Tratamento termico; Aço - Trabalho a frio; Microestrutura; Laminação (Metalurgia); Steel Cold working

The current requirement for large forgings quality required by the market brings the demand to manage completely each stage of the manufacturing process. The homogenizing heat treatment process applied in ingots used in the manufacture of cold rolling mill rolls aims to homogenize the microstructure of raw solidification that will suffer a subsequent mechanical forming process, reducing the level of microsegregations in interdentrite regions structure of the ingot. We quantified the effect of temperature and time of the process through the analysis of the microstructure formed after a sudden cooling, in samples taken from different regions of the ingot. This task was realized applying an A2 kind of steel, cast, length ~ 2 m, diameter ~ 1 m, to be forged and used in the manufacture of a rolling Mill rolls. Samples of the raw structure solidification and the homogenizations and tempered samples were taken and analyzed .The samples were taken at the ingot surface at the middle radius and the central region; Heat treatments were applied with temperatures between 1150°C and 1200°C through 8 h, 16 h and 24 h. Optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy were used. As expected, the raw solidification structure showed high levels of segregation, especially in the central region of the ingot. The 8 h proved to be insufficient despite the temperature used. The temperature of 1150 ° C is acceptable for treatment of 24 h and complete homogenization of the structure was only achieved by using treatment at 1200 ° C. The raw structure of solidification has a heterogeneous microstructure, characterized by dendritic appearance. The homogenized and quenched structure resulted in a microstructure composed by austenite, grades of martensite, the solidification carbides and precipitates carbides during heat treatment