High-strength and high-wear-resistance vanadium-titanium cast iron brake drum
Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of automobile part manufacturing, in particular to a high-strength and high-wear-resistance vanadium-titanium cast iron brake drum.
Background
The automobile brake drum is one of important safety protection parts of an automobile, and the performance and the quality of the automobile brake drum are concerned with the life safety of people in the driving process of the automobile. The service environment of the automobile brake drum is very harsh and is under the complex working conditions of strong friction, mechanical impact and temperature impact. Therefore, the brake drum must have good wear resistance, high mechanical strength and a certain toughness. Good thermal conductivity and fatigue resistance are also properties that the brake drum should possess in order to ensure heat dissipation and reduce cracking. Cast iron is the most important material for manufacturing automobile brake drums. However, the common gray cast iron brake drum has low hardness and strength, poor wear resistance and short service life, and can not meet the performance requirements of the modern automobile brake drum. The alloy gray cast iron has greatly improved strength, hardness and wear resistance due to the strengthening effect of alloy elements. Vanadium and titanium are used as strong carbide forming elements, a carbide strengthening phase can be formed in the cast iron, and simultaneously the vanadium and titanium also have the function of refining a matrix structure, so that the vanadium-titanium alloy gray cast iron added with the vanadium and titanium is a potential material for preparing the automobile brake drum. Carbon is an essential element of cast iron and is present in the cast iron in the form of free graphite, carbides, alloy cementites. Carbon is an element that strongly promotes graphitization, and an increase in the amount of carbon increases the amount of graphite, making the graphite coarse. The mass fraction of carbon in the gray cast iron is generally in the range 2.7% to 3.8%, mainly in the form of flake graphite. In the existing report, the carbon content in the vanadium-titanium cast iron brake drum is usually above 3.2%, and although the higher carbon content is beneficial to ensuring the amount of graphite in the vanadium-titanium cast iron brake drum, the higher carbon content is not beneficial to obtaining a high-content pearlite matrix structure, so that the brake drum with high strength and high hardness is difficult to obtain.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects in the prior art, the invention aims to provide a vanadium-titanium cast iron brake drum with high strength and high wear resistance.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the technical scheme that: the brake drum is made of gray cast iron containing vanadium and titanium elements, and comprises the following chemical components in percentage by weight: 2.95-3.1%, Si: 1.7-1.85%, Mn: 0.8-0.9%, P: less than or equal to 0.04 percent, S: less than or equal to 0.05 percent, V: 0.15 to 0.25%, Ti: 0.05-0.2%, and the balance of iron and other inevitable impurities; the pearlite content in the matrix structure of the brake drum is not less than 95%, the A-type graphite content in the graphite form is not less than 85%, the graphite length is 4-5 grades, the tensile strength of the brake drum is 290-370 MPa, the hardness is HB 200-265, and the brake drum has high strength and high wear resistance.
Preferably, the brake drum is cast by adopting a precoated sand process, the molten iron used for smelting is prepared from 50-90 parts by weight of natural vanadium-titanium pig iron, 0-20 parts by weight of scrap steel and 10-30 parts by weight of foundry returns, the molten iron is subjected to component tempering and twice inoculation and then poured into a casting mold, and the casting temperature is 1350-1380 ℃.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: the vanadium-titanium cast iron brake drum takes the design idea of taking low carbon content, high silicon-carbon ratio and proper amount of vanadium-titanium alloy as components, fully exerts the performance advantages of high hardness, high strength and high wear resistance of the vanadium-titanium cast iron brake drum, and ensures that the vanadium-titanium cast iron brake drum has stable pearlite matrix structure and high content of A-type graphite through the control of a casting process, thereby ensuring that the vanadium-titanium cast iron brake drum has good toughness and thermal conductivity while having high strength and high wear resistance. Secondly, the vanadium-titanium element is introduced into the cast iron brake drum for alloying by taking natural vanadium-titanium pig iron in Panxi area as one of raw materials, and the vanadium-titanium cast iron brake drum is prepared by a precoated sand casting process, so that the advantages of low cost and high efficiency are achieved while the performance and the quality of the brake drum are ensured.
Detailed Description
The present invention is further illustrated by the following specific examples, but the present invention is not limited to the following examples, and any non-inventive modifications made by those skilled in the art based on the present invention are within the scope of the present invention.
Example 1
The brake drum is prepared by taking 60 parts by weight of natural vanadium-titanium pig iron, 20 parts by weight of scrap steel and 20 parts by weight of foundry returns as raw materials, performing smelting, component tempering and two-time inoculation treatment, and then casting the molten iron into a casting mold made of precoated sand at 1350 ℃, wherein the obtained vanadium-titanium pig iron brake drum comprises the following components: 3.03%, Si: 1.72%, Mn: 0.85%, P: 0.025%, S: 0.042%, V: 0.18%, Ti: 0.056 percent and the balance of iron. Through tissue analysis and performance tests, the pearlite content in the matrix tissue of the brake drum is 98%, the A-type graphite content in the graphite form is 88%, the graphite length is 5-grade, the tensile strength of the brake drum is 368.5MPa, and the hardness is HB 263.
Example 2
Taking 70 parts by weight of natural vanadium-titanium pig iron, 10 parts by weight of scrap steel and 20 parts by weight of foundry returns as raw materials, performing smelting, component tempering and twice inoculation treatment, and casting molten iron into a casting mold made of precoated sand at 1370 ℃, wherein the obtained vanadium-titanium cast iron brake drum comprises the following components: 3.1%, Si: 1.8%, Mn: 0.88%, P: 0.032%, S: 0.045%, V: 0.22%, Ti: 0.098% and the balance iron. Through tissue analysis and performance tests, the pearlite content in the matrix tissue of the brake drum is 96%, the A-type graphite content in the graphite form is 93%, the graphite length is 5-grade, the tensile strength of the brake drum is 291MPa, and the hardness is HB 217.
Example 3
Taking 50 parts by weight of natural vanadium-titanium pig iron, 20 parts by weight of scrap steel and 30 parts by weight of foundry returns as raw materials, performing smelting, component tempering and two times of inoculation treatment, and casting the molten iron into a casting mold made of precoated sand at 1350 ℃, wherein the obtained vanadium-titanium cast iron brake drum comprises the following components: 2.97%, Si: 1.77%, Mn: 0.85%, P: 0.038%, S: 0.036%, V: 0.18%, Ti: 0.12% and the balance iron. Through tissue analysis and performance tests, the pearlite content in the matrix tissue of the brake drum is 97%, the A-type graphite content in the graphite form is 90%, the graphite length is 4-grade, the tensile strength of the brake drum is 357.2MPa, and the hardness is HB 256.