GB2224514A - Steel and production thereof - Google Patents

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GB2224514A
GB2224514A GB8923306A GB8923306A GB2224514A GB 2224514 A GB2224514 A GB 2224514A GB 8923306 A GB8923306 A GB 8923306A GB 8923306 A GB8923306 A GB 8923306A GB 2224514 A GB2224514 A GB 2224514A
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- 1 222 45 4 STEEL AND A PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF STEEL
The invention relates to the field of metallurgy and concerns a low-alloy steel, its production, and its use. Tle steel is suitable for use in particular in thickwall structural units manufactured by casting which are connected to the rest of a construction by welding. Typical structural units of this sort are pipe joints in offshore equipment, slewing rings of ship and port cranes, bogies of railway wagons and coaches, and heavy cogwheels and shafts for hoisting gears.
When cast structural units are used in large constructions assembled by welding to substitute for units composed of tubes and plates by welding, owing to the possibility of free shaping of the castings, e.g., the following advantages are obtained:
- 'ne joint seams can be removed from stress concentration regions to less heavily loaded regions.
- The joints can be shifted to areas where the welding work can be accomplished easily and reliably and where the welding work can be automated readily.
- In the planning of a casting, material can be added to highly stressed regions and reduced from less highly loaded areas. In this way the weight of a structural unit can be lowered and its operation be made more reliable.
-'ne castings have no risk of lamellar tearing.
- The casting can be shaped as of smooth geometry and so that stress concentrations are eliminated.
- It is possible to accomplish material thicknesses that are difficult to accomplish as plate/tube combinations.
In spite of the numerous advantages mentioned above, cast structural units have been used relatively scarcely. The principal reason has been that such cast steels not been available as equal the wrought products plates, tubes and forgoings - used for these applications in respect of the combination of strength/toughness/weldability.
The general object of the present invention is to provide a steel species whose toughness and fracture toughness properties equal those of wrought products of the same strength class in all temperature ranges, but in particular at low temperatures.
The means necessary to achieve the object of the invention are given in the patent claims.
The minimum yield strength of the steel in accordance with the invention is at least 540 MPa, and it can be adjusted up to 750 MPa by increasing the alloying degree. The toughness and fracture properties of the steel equal those of wrought products of the same strength class up to pieces of a thickness of about 200 mm.
Wrought products can be manufactured with corresponding properties up to a wall thickness of about 50 mm.
The steel can be welded without preheating, and heat treatment after welding is not necessary. On the other hand, the steel can also be welded with preheating, and after welding it can be stress-relief annealed or dehydration annealed without deteriorating its strength or toughness properties.
In the final product, the steel is characterized in a microstructure which consists of a uniform lath-marten-sitic/lower bainitic structure whose grain boundaries are practically free from precipitations and from non-metalic inclusions. No gas agglomerations or gas blows occur in the structure. Such a uniform microstructure is effective through the entire cross-section of the casting up to wall thicknesses of 200 mm.
An optimized microstructure, which provides the desired combination of strength/toughness/weldability, is achieved by choice of chemical composition and compatible beat treatment.
In the chemical composition it is essential that the carbon content shall be low - at the maximum 0.12%. As a rule, the carbon content of known steels of this strength class and intended for thick castings is remarkably higher. Owing to the low carbon content, the changes in specific volume on hardening remain little, and so also the deformation stresses, which are one prerequisite for cold tear, remain negligible. On the other hand, the carbon content has preferably a lower limit of 0.06%. This amount of carbon prevents atomic infiltration of impurities at the grain boundaries, which may promote temper brittleness in spite of low concentrations.
Attempts should be made to minimize the hydrogen content in steel. It is preferably 5 ppm, most appropriately at the maximum 2 ppm. In this way, no cold cracking occurs in connection with welding. Moreover, by means of this limitation of the hydrogen content, phenomena of hydrogen tear in the interior of thick castings are prevented.
The concentrations of sulfur and phosphorus are very low: Smax = 0.01 %, Pmax = 0.012 %. The nitrogen content is preferably also very low, at the maximum 100 ppm. By means of limitations of these impurities it is achieved that precipitations or infiltrations that endanger the toughness or weldability do not occur practically in any temperature range and that the steel also retains its 20 toughness after its varying metallurgical histories.
is To guarantee a uniform microstructure and, as a result of that, a uniform combination of strength/toughness/weldability throughout cross-sections of a thickness of up to 200 mm, relatively abundant alloying is required from the steel. The concentrations of silicon and manganese are limited to quite low levels in spite of their remarkable ability to increase the hardening capacity. The concentration of chromium is also quite low. On the contrary, nickel and molybdenum have been used abundantly.
The following combination of alloying elements is typical of the steel:
Si max 0.6 % Mn max 1 % Cr 0.5 1.5% Ni 2 5 % Mo 0.3 1 % With the chosen combination of alloying elements, the strengthening to the desired strength level takes place in the first place through the solution strengthening and not so much by means of the martensitic conversion. This latter mechanism is typical of the prior-art cast steels of this strength class.
Owing to the relatively abundant alloying the steel requires quenching and tempering as heat treatment, wherein the hardening requires solution annealing followed by water quenching. However, with this steel, this can be carried out without a risk of tearing even when pieces of complicated shapes are treated, for, owing to the low carbon content, the changes in specific volume on formation of martensite remain very little, and the stresses that arise do not even nearly approach the braking point of the steel.
In the steel now invented, microconstituents of alloying, such as titanium, vanadium, niobium, boron, or zirconium, which are typical of the prior-art weldable wrought steels of the corresponding strength class, are not used to a 20 substantial extent.
Ile concentrations of the microconstituents are lirnited to the following maximum values: Nb Ti v Zr B 0.02% 0.02% 0.03% 0.02% 0.003% All of the concentrations given above refer to the concentrations in the final product.
The steel in accordance with the invention can be produced by means of a two-stage melting process:
1. Tle first stage of the melting is carried out in a normal air-are furnace, wherein, by means of a normal slagging process and by means of oxygen blowing advanced further than in a conventional melting process, sulfur, phosphorus, silicon, and manganese are removed from the molten steel to very low contents. At the same time, significant amounts of carbon and chromium are also removed. In this electric-arc furnace stage the gas content of the steel, in particular in respect of nitrogen and oxygen, may be very high.
2. In the second stage, after the steel that was melted in the electricarc furnace has been transferred into a vacuum converter, it is subjected to a short oxygen blowing stage, by means of which a low concentration of detrimental impurities is ensured. Hereupon the concentrations of the desired elements are adjusted to the limits aimed at by addition of pure alloying elements. At this stage the gas content in the steel may be high.
After the alloying and the removal of detrimental impurities, the detrimental gases are removed from the melt by into the converter chamber sucking a deep vacuum (lower than 5 mbars, preferably lower than 2 mbars) and by, at the same time, stirring the steel melt by means of blowing of pure argon taking place from underneath the melt. During this process stage, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen are eliminated from the steel down to equilibrium concentrations, which are so low that they have no weakening effect on the properties of solidified steel.
The casting is subjected to a quenching and tempering treatment, which includes water quenching at about 900 OC, tempering at about 600 OC, and air cooling to the room temperature. In this way, an impact toughness of typically 100 to 300 J KV- at -40 OC and -60 'c is obtained for the casting up to wall thicknesses of 200 mm. The microstructure is uniformly lath-martensitic- lowerbanitic through the entire wall.
Ile steel can be welded as cold, and it need not be heat treated after welding when the welding energy is kept within the range of 10 to 35 kj/cm. The weld deformation zone meets the minimum requirement of the base material, and in the deformation zone no cold cracking occurs unless the hydrogen level of the weld itself is higher than 10 ppm.

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CLAIMS:
1. Low alloy cast steel, characterized in that the alloying elements proper are nickel, molybdenum, and chromiurn, and their concentrations are Ni
2 to 5 % Mo 0.
3 to 1 % Cr 0.5 to 1.5% the concentrations of silicon and manganese are Si max 0.6 % Mn max 1 % the carbon content is C max 0.12 % the concentrations of the microconstituents niobium, titanium, vanadium, zirconium, and boron are Nb Ti v Zr B max 0.02 % max 0.02 % max 0.03 % max 0.02 % max 0.003% the concentrations of the impurities sulfur and phosphorus are S max 0.01 % P max 0.012 % 2. Steel as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the concentrations of hydrogen and nitrogen are H max 5 ppm N max 100 ppm 3. Steel as claimed in claim I or 2, characterized in that the concentrations of the alloying elements are Ni 2.3 to 2.7 Mo 0.3 to 0.5 Cr 1 to 1.5
4. Steel as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the concentrations of the alloying elements are Ni 4.2 to
5 Mo 0.5 to 0.7 Cr 0.5 to 1 5. Steel as claimed in any of the claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the 10 concentrations of silicon and manganese are Si max 0.3 % Mn max 0. 05 %
6. Steel as claimed in any of the claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the concentrations of the microconstituents are Nb max 0.01 % Ti max 0.01 % v max 0.02 % Zr max 0.01 % B max 0.002%
7. Steel as claimed in any of the claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the concentrations of the impurities are
S max 0.005 % P max 0.01 % 8. Steel as claimed in any of the claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the carbon content is C max 0.10 %
9. Steel as claimed in any of the claims 1 to 8, characteiized in that the concentration of hydrogen and nitrogen are H max 2 ppm N max 60 ppm
10. Process for the production of low-alloy cast steel, characterized in that steel as claimed in any of the claims 1 to 6 is produced by means of a two stage melting process, wherein in the first stage, the impurities that occur as solid in the solidified state are removed while permitting an intensive increase in the gas content of the steel, and in the second stage, after adjustment of the alloying, gases are removed by means of deep vacuum and stirring by means of an inert gas.
11. Process as claimed in claim 10, characterized in that the vacuum is lower than 5 mbars.
12. Process as claimed in claim 11, characterized in that the vacuum is lower than 2 mbars.
13. Process as claimed in any of the claims 10 to 12, characterized in that in the second stage the steel melt is stirred by blowing argon into the melt from below.
14. Process for casting of steel castings out of low-alloy cast steel, characterized in that a casting is cast out of a steel as claimed in any of the claims 1 to 9 or out of a steel produced in accordance with any of the claims 10 to 13, the casting is hardened at a temperature of about 900 'C by water quenching, tempered at a temperature of about 600 OC, and air-cooled to the room temperature so that the microstructure of the final product is substantially lath martensitic-lower-bainitic.
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