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US3889510A
US3889510A US413759A US41375973A US3889510A US 3889510 A US3889510 A US 3889510A US 413759 A US413759 A US 413759A US 41375973 A US41375973 A US 41375973A US 3889510 A US3889510 A US 3889510A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
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    • C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
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  • This invention relates to a hot forging process at a temperature in the range of 450C to the A transformation point. More particularly, the present invention relates to a preparatory treatment of steel which is a heat treatment or plastic working of the steel before a final hot forging step to achieve forgings or forged products having improved mechanical properties and an attractive appearance with a minimum formation of scale on the surface of the forgings.
  • conventional hot forging at temperatures ranging from 450C to the A transformation point is intended to forge materials to achieve a nonsymmetrical configuration which otherwise could not be obtained by cold forging techniques on materials which dictate a high degree of workability or on materials to which cold forging is not applicable.
  • the conventional hot forging techniques suffer from the disadvantages in that heat treatments are required after forging to achieve the desired mechanical properties in the forged products. This heat treatment results in the warping of or in the introduction of residual strain into the forged products and/or results in the impairment of the dimensional accuracy and the surface appearance of the forged products.
  • thermomechanical treatment Prior art procedures which have been developed to improve the toughness or mechanical properties of forgings include hot working utilizing a thermomechanical treatment, forged hardening, ausforming, ausrollingtempering and the like.
  • forged hardening and ausforming are quite well known.
  • thermo-mechanical treatments include the steps of heating a material to an austenite zone above the A transformation point and then working the metal while it is cooled.
  • These procedures not only require the use of complicated forging or working techniques, but also require critical control of timing or temperature, and the like.
  • these techniques still result in products whose surfaces are covered with scales, because these techniques require the use of an elevated temperature in the austenite zone above the A transformation point.
  • one object of the invention is to provide a hot forging process at a temperature of 450C to the A transformation point, which process obviates the use of a heat treatment step after the final forging, yet which results in a forged product having improved mechanical properties.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a hot forging process which employs several types of preparatory treatments before the final hot forging step, so as to eliminate a subsequent heat treatment step thereaf ter which must be used in conventional forging processes.
  • a hot forging process which comprises heat treating or plastic working a steel and then hot forging said heat treated or plastic worked steel at a temperature in the range from 450C to the A transformation point. This method of treatment obviates the need for heat treatment steps after the hot forging step.
  • FIG. 1 is a series of photomicrographs of the structures as hardened and tempered plus the heat treatment grain size of AISI I045 steels which have been subjected to forged hardening hot hot forging and normal hardening tempering; and
  • FIG. 2 is a plot showing the results of ONO-type rotational bending fatigue tests of rolled AISI I045 steels which have been subjected to hardening hot forging and ordinary hardening tempering.
  • a hot forging process which includes an initial pretreatment step of heat treating or of plastic working a carbon steel or a low alloy steel and then forging the same at a temperature in the range of 450C to the A transformation point, thereby improving the mechanical properties of the forged steel.
  • the combined treatments produce a steel free from warping or residual strain unlike steels which are subjected to the conventional heat treatment, which do not have inaccurate dimensions and undesirable surface roughness.
  • a hot forging process of the type described in which, before the final hot forging, the starting steel is heat treated or hardened and tempered.
  • a hot forging process of the type described in which, before the final hot forging, the starting steels as rolled or normalized are heated to a temperature in the ferrite austenite zone below the A transformation point, and the final forging is applied at the aforesaid temperature.
  • the temperature of the steel is raised because of the forging heat up to a temperature close to the A transformation point or above.
  • the austenite formed before forging and the austenite which has been formed because of the temperature increase from the forging heat will cause deformation of the steel thereby giving a structure which contains relatively fine grains of austenite.
  • steels thus forged are quenched, steels having a hardened, finer martensite structure are obtained. If required, hardening and tempering treatments may be applied to the steels before the final hot forging.
  • the starting temperature of the steels in this preparatory hot forging treatment before the final hot forging should be high enough to austenitize the steels because of the forging heat. For this reason, the temperature of the steels to be heated should be maintained above the A transformation point of the steels.
  • the forging rate or the working rate in the preparatory treatment stage is relatively small, a lesser degree of austenitization of the steels caused by the forging heat occurs which means that the steel produced will not have the desired toughness and strength even if the steel is heat treated after forging.
  • the temperature of the steels, which steels have two austenite and ferrite phases, heated in the preparatory forging step should range between the A transformation point and the A transformation point and preferably in the range between the A transformation point and 50C less than the A transformation point.
  • the temperature of the steels will be increased too high to obtain a fine structure, resulting in no improvement in the toughness of the steels.
  • the steels which have been subjected to the prepara tory forging treatment are subsequently subjected to quench-hardening to give a fine martensite structure.
  • the steels thus hardened are finally tempered and normalized to give the desired strength and toughness.
  • the hardening step after the preparatory forging may be an oil quenching procedure. However, if the steel products are small, then air cooling may be used in the quenching step.
  • the final hot forging treatment is applied to the steels.
  • a hot forging process ofthe type described in which, before the final hot forging at a temperature from 450C to the A transformation point, a cold working step such as cold drawing, cold rolling or the like is applied to the steels at a reduction-of-area percentage of at least The cold working step imparts working strain into the steels.
  • the reduction-of-area percentage in the cold working step as used herein should be over 15% to obtain the desired toughness for forgings after the final hot forging. If lesser degrees of reduction-of-area percentage are obtained, such as for instance by only several percentage points, such as used in the cold or hot heading process for bolts, the desired improved mechanical properties may not be obtained.
  • the steels which have been subjected to cold working are finally hotforged at a temperature ranging from 450C to the A transformation point. If the forging temperature is lower than 450C, i.e., in the blue shortness range, then the working resistance (working load) will be increased which results in difficulties when the steels are worked. On the other hand, if the forging temperature exceeds the A transformation point, then a too high forging temperature will result, thereby neutralizing the effect of the working strain imparted by the cold working step. Thus, the forgings produced do not have improved toughness. Forgings having better mechanical properties are obtained at greater heating rates and, therefore, shorter heating times in the forging of the steel in the above temperature range.
  • the heating rate should preferably be at least 30C/min,
  • the time period over which the forging is heated should be less than 40 minutes.
  • the slower the cooling rate the greater the strength of the product forging.
  • forgings are produced having greater toughness.
  • the extrusion speed when the forging is extruded is preferably over 5 mm/sec.
  • the cooling rate after the final hot forging should be as great as possible to obtain the desired improved strength.
  • forgings with greater toughness may be ob tained at lower cooling rates.
  • the aforesaid factors must be evaluated and determined depending on the requirements necessary for the product forgings.
  • a hot forging process of the type described in which, before the final hot forging at a temperature of from 450C to the A transformation point, the steels are heated to a temperature above the A. transformation point in the hot forging process. Thereafter, the forging is hardened and then heated again to a temperature in the range from 450C to the A transformation point for the final hot forging.
  • the hot forging process is followed by air cooling or cooling at a rate greater than the air cooling.
  • These steps are preparatory treatments before the final hot forging treatment at a temperature of from 450C to the A transformation point.
  • the steels are heated to a temperature above the A transformation point. In this case, however, the scale formed on the surface of the forgings may be readily removed by the forged hardening treatment.
  • the final forging temperature of 450C to the A transformation point is relatively low and this results in considerably improved dimensional accuracy and sur face appearance of the steel.
  • the cooling rate as used herein apparently depends on the configuration and dimensions of the steels to be forged, and hence the cooling rate can not be specified herein. However, the cooling rate should be such that the steels have a martensite structure after hot forging at a temperature over the A transformation point.
  • Forged steels having improved strength and toughness are obtained by the hot forging process of the invention in comparison to those steels which have been forged by the conventional hardening, tempering and normalizing treatments.
  • the heat treatment and working of the steel before the final hot forging particularly contributes to the greatly improved mechanical properties of the steel.
  • steels treated by the process of the present invention have improved toughness, compared with steels having a ferrite or perlite structure and which have been subjected to hot forging in an as rolled condition.
  • a hot forging step at a temperature from 450C to the A transformation point which obviates the necessity of a normalizing treatment which is required in conventional cold forging techniques.
  • the process of the present invention greatly improves the appearance of forged products as well as the strain caused by the heat treatment, thereby giving a steel product with improved, consistent dimensional accuracy.
  • a tempering treatment may be simultaneously applied during the hot forging operation, thus dispensing with a separate tempering treatment which offers a considerable advantage in the production of forgings.
  • steels which have been subjected to hardening and tempering may again be heated to the desired temperature selected for the final hot forging.
  • Table I shows the chemical composition of the samples used on a weight percent basis of the forgings of the invention.
  • Table [I] shows the mechanical properties of steel Table ll illustrates the comparison of the mechanical properties of two types of AlSl 1045 steel bars 25 mm in diameter.
  • One type of such bars has been subjected to a heat treatment or plastic working and then hot forged at a temperature ranging from 450C to the A transformation point and the other sample has been subjected to only a heat treatment or plastic working.
  • 600C hot forging The impact values of the steel are materially improved by the hot forging treatment at 600C.
  • the steels are hot forged at 600C. along with the varyples were then quenched in water. This procedure was followed in the second and third aspects of the inven tion.
  • Hardening-9hr forging After hardening, the steel samples are healed at 600C for 30 minutes and then hot extrusion-forged.
  • the forgings which have been subjected to hardening (tempering) and hot forging exhibit elongation and reduction-of-area percentage values somewhat lower than those samples which have been subjected to a hardening and tempering treatment. In addition, they also exhibit greater tensile strength, yield points and impact values than the unforged samples. Forgings which have been subjected to hardening and then hot forging by the process of the present invention have materially improved ductility and toughness compared to those forgings which have been subjected to rolling and hot forging.
  • FIG. 2 shows the results of ONO type rotational bending fatigue tests on steels which have been subjected to hardening and hot forging by the process of the invention as well as steels which have been subjected to conventional hardening and tempering treatments.
  • the forgings of the present invention have a superb fatigue strength 12 kg/mm greater than the values of the forgings which have only been subjected to hardening and tempering.
  • Table IV shows the mechanical properties of AISI 1045 steel bars 25 mm in diameter which have been subjected to hot forging under the same conditions as has been previously described in which the steels have been hot forged with a ton hammer at 60 cycles/min. By this free forging technique, round bars are obtained which have a diameter of 16 mm.
  • AlSl i045 sample steels of 25 mm diameter were placed in a heating furnace maintained at 820C (A 27C), 780C (A 13C), and 750C (A 43C), respectively, for 30 minutes and then each sample was free forged to a 20 mm diameter. Thereafter, the samples were immediately forged and water quenched. Subsequently the steels thus treated were heated to 600C for 30 minutes and then subjected to hot forging until a diameter of l6 mm was reached.
  • the mechanical properties obtained for the forged steels are shown in Table V.
  • the steel forgings obtained by the process of the present invention have a strength and toughness greater than the steels which have been subjected to conventional hardening and tempering treatments. In particular the impact values are twice as great as those steels treated by the conventional process.
  • the improved properties of the steels obtained from the process of the present invention stem from the finer grain structure of the steels.
  • FIG. 1 is a series of several photomicrographs which show the grain sizes (heat treatment grain size) of a No. 2 steel obtained by the present invention and a No. 5 steel obtained by the conventional process.
  • AISI4120 rolled 2S 730C which is higher than the A transformation steels were machined to diameters of 22, 23.2 and 24.6 mm respectively. Thereafter the rolled steels were cold point neutralizes the effect of cold working, with the resulting lowered strength.
  • Table VI the steels which have not been Table VII shows the effects of I7 and 34 minute holding times on hot forging, at a temperature of 600C.
  • Table VII the holding time at the hot forging temperature has little or no effect on steels which have not been cold worked. However, when steels are cold worked, the shorter the holding time, the greater the toughness (impact value).
  • the cold worked have their strength and toughness improved by means of the hot forging.
  • steels which have been subjected to 20% cold working have improved toughness, particularly medium carbon steels.
  • the forging temperature of Table VIII shows the mechanical properties of steels which have been heated in a heating furnace at 600C. and then subjected to hot extrusionforging to a reduced diameter of 14 mm at working speeds of 20 mm/sec and 200 mm/sec followed by water quenching.
  • the hot forging process of the invention produces excellently forged steels which can not be achieved by the and slow cooling steel samples after hot forging.
  • the data further shows the mechanical properties of steels which have been subjected to 20% cold working, heated for 17 minutes in a heating furnace maintained at 600C and then subjected to hot forging to a reduced diameter of 14 mm working) at a working speed of 20 mm/sec followed by water quenching.
  • Steels which can be employed in the process of the present invention are low, medium carbon steels or low alloy steels, as well as any other steels which are suitable for forging.
  • carbon steels containing 01 to 0.6% carbon, up to 1.0% silicon, and up As can be seen from Table 1X, when the hot forged steel is cooled at the higher rate, the greater is the strength and the lower the ductility. At the lower cooling rate, the steel has a lower strength and a greater ductility.
  • greater thoughness (impact value) of the steel can be achieved by resorting to the process of the invention.
  • alloy steels containing one or more of the alloying elements of up to 4% nickel, up to 2% chromium, up to l.0% molybdenum, up to 0.05% boron, up to 0.5% niobium and the like can be used.
  • a process of hot forging a carbon or low alloy steel which comprises the steps of:

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