Abstract:
The steel pipe has a structure composed mainly of ferrite or ferrite plus pearlite or ferrite plus cementite. The steel pipe is characterized by grain size not greater than 3 &mgr;m, preferably not greater than 1 &mgr;m, elongation greater than 20%, tensile strength (TS:MPa) and elongation (E1:%) whose product is greater than 10000, and percent ductile fracture greater than 95%, preferably 100%, measured by Charpy impact test on an actual pipe at −100° C. The structure is characterized by C: 0.005-0.03%, Si: 0.01-3.0%, Mn: 0.01-2.0%, and Al: 0.001-0.10% on a weight basis, and is composed of ferrite or ferrite and a secondary phase, with ferrite grains being not greater than 3 &mgr;m and the secondary phase having an areal ratio not more than 30%. A steel pipe stock having the above-mentioned composition is heated at a temperature of (Ac1+50° C.) to 400° C. and subsequently reduced at a rolling temperature of (Ac1+50° C.) to 400° C. such that the cumulative reduction of diameter is greater than 20%. The reducing is preferably performed such that at least one of rolling passes reduces the diameter by more than 6% per pass. The steel pipe will have high ductility and high strength and will be superior in toughness and stress corrosion cracking resistance, if the content of C, Si, Mn, and other alloying elements is limited low and reducing is performed at the temperature specified above. The resulting steel pipe has good fatigue resistance and is suitable for use as line pipe.
Abstract:
A steel pipe containing fine ferrite crystal grains, which has excellent toughness and ductility and good ductility-strength balance as well as superior collision impact resistance, and a method for producing the same are provided. A steel pipe containing super-fine crystal grains can be produced by heating a base steel pipe having ferrite grains with an average crystal diameter of di (nullm), in which C, Si, Mn and Al are limited within proper ranges, and if necessary, Cu, Ni, Cr and Mo, or Nb, Ti, V, B, etc. are further added, at not higher than the Ac3 transformation point, and applying reducing at an average rolling temperature of nullm (null C.) and a total reduction ratio Tred (%) within s temperature range of from 400 to Ac3 transformation point, with di, nullm and Tred being in a relation satisfying a prescribed equation.
Abstract:
The present concepts include a zero-porosity structure having a plurality of structural elements arranged to provide a negative Poisson's ratio and, further, a new mechanism to generate negative Poisson's ratio is single material, zero-porosity structure.
Abstract:
The present invention includes a casing 11 and a rotary mechanism provided with an impeller 12 and an output shaft 13a that come into contact with primary cooling helium containing radioactive nuclides passing through the casing 11. The impeller 12 and the output shaft 13a of the rotary mechanism are composed of a coarsely-grained crystalline material containing a monocrystalline material with a larger grain size to have a lower effective diffusion coefficient than a polycrystalline alloy. This can prevent radioactive nuclides from deeply diffusing into a material constituting a rotor or a rotor shaft that come into contact with coolant containing radioactive nuclides, thereby reducing the cost of maintenance.
Abstract:
Processes for fabricating components (10) to have two or more regions (14, 12) with different grain structures, and components (10) produced by such processes. The processes entail performing at least one forging step on a preform (20) to produce a profile (24) having at least a first portion (28) corresponding to the first region (14) of the component (10). The preform (20) is formed of a precipitation-strengthened alloy having a solvus temperature, and the at least one forging step comprises a nonfinal forging step performed at a first strain rate and at a first subsolvus temperature that is below the solvus temperature of the alloy. A subsequent forging step is performed on the profile (24) to produce a final profile (26) comprising the first portion (28) and a second portion (32) corresponding to the second region (12) of the component (10). The subsequent forging step is performed at a strain rate and at a subsequent subsolvus temperature, wherein at least one of the subsequent strain rate and subsequent subsolvus temperature is either higher or lower than the first strain rate or first subsolvus temperature. A heat treatment is then performed on the final profile (26) to cause grain growth, wherein the first portion (28) of the final profile (26) has a different grain size than the second portion (32).
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to an iron, aluminum, chromium, carbon alloy and a method of producing the same, wherein the alloy has good room temperature ductility, excellent high temperature oxidation resistance and ductility. The alloy includes about 10 to 70 at.% iron, about 10 to 45 at.% aluminum, about 1 to 70 at.% chromium and about 0.9 to 15 at.% carbon. The invention is also directed to a material comprising a body-centered-cubic solid solution of this alloy, and a method for strengthening this material by the precipitation of body-centered-cubic particles within the solid solution, wherein the particles have substantially the same lattice parameters as the underlying solid solution. The ease of processing and excellent mechanical properties exhibited by the alloy, especially at high temperatures, allows it to be used in high temperature structural applications, such as a turbocharger component.
Abstract:
This hot rolled steel sheet includes: in terms of percent by mass, C of 0.01 to 0.2%; Si of 0.01 to 2%; Mn of 0.1 to 2%; P of ≤0.1%; S of ≤0.03%; Al of 0.001 to 0.1%; N of ≤0.01%; and as a remainder, Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein a microstructure is substantially a homogeneous continuous-cooled microstructure, and an average grain size of the microstructure is more than 8 µm and 30µm or less. This method for manufacturing a hot rolled steel sheet includes: a step of subjecting a slab having the above composition to a rough rolling so as to obtain a rough rolled bar; a step of subjecting the rough rolled bar to a finish rolling so as to obtain a rolled steel under conditions in which a finishing temperature is (Ar 3 transformation point + 50°C) or more; and a step of starting cooling the rolled steel after 0.5 seconds or more pass from the end of the finish rolling at a temperature of the Ar 3 transformation point or more, cooling at least in the temperature range from the Ar 3 transformation point to 500°C at a cooling rate of 80°C/sec or more, further cooling until the temperature is 500°C or less to obtain a hot rolled steel sheet and coiling the hot rolled steel sheet.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a method for making a strip or a workpiece cut out from a cold rolled maraging steel strip and hardened by a hardening heat treatment, which consists, prior to the heat treatment, in subjecting the strip or the workpiece to cold plastic deformation with a rate of strain hardening more than 30 % and in subjecting the strip or the workpiece to a recrystallization annealing so as to obtain a fine grain of ASTM index more than 8. The maraging steel composition comprises, by weight: 12 % ≤ Ni ≤ 24.5 %; 2.5 % ≤ Mo ≤ 12 %; 4.17 % ≤ Co ≤ 20 %; Al ≤ 0.15 %; Ti ≤ 0.1 %; N ≤ 0.003 %; Si ≤ 0.1 %; Mn ≤ 0.1 %; C ≤ 0.005 %; S ≤ 0.001 %; P ≤ 0.005 %; H ≤ = 0.0003 %; O ≤ 0.001 %; the rest being iron and impurities resulting from preparation of the composition, the composition further satisfying the following relationships: 20 % ≤ Ni + Mo ≤ 27 %; 50 ≤ Co x Mo ≤ 200
Abstract:
A method of producing a ultra fine grain steel made of ferrite having a mean grain size of not larger that 3 µm as the base phase, after ingoting raw materials, by austenitizing the ingot by heating it to a temperature of at least an Ac 3 point, then, applying compression working of a reduction ratio of at least 50% at a temperature of from an Ae 3 point or lower to an Ar 3 point - 150°C, or at a temperature of at least 550°C, and thereafter, cooling, wherein the strain rate as compression working is in the range of from 0.001 to 10/second.