• Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.203-210
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• 2011

Bake hardening steels have to resist strain aging to prevent the yield strength increment and stretcher strain during press process and to enhance the bake hardenability during baking process after painting. The bake hardening steels need to control the solute carbon and the solute nitrogen to improve the bake hardenability. Ti and/or Nb alloying for nitride and carbide precipitation and low carbon content below 0.003% are used to solve strain aging and formability problem for automotive materials. However, in the present study, the effect of micro-precipitation of copper sulfide on the bake hardenability and fatigue properties of extremely low carbon steel has been investigated. The bake hardenability of Cu-alloyed bake hardening (Cu-BH) steel was slightly higher (5 MPa) than that of Nb-alloyed bake hardening (Nb-BH) steel, but the fatigue limit of Cu-BH steel was far higher (45 MPa) than that of Nb-BH steel. All samples showed the ductile fracture behavior and some samples revealed distinct fatigue stages, such as crack initiation, stable crack growth and unstable crack growth.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.802-806
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• 2001

Chrome-molybden steel or chrome steel for machine structural use been shown to excellent hardenability adding boron of a small amount at low carbon steel. In the country boron steel has been used widely high strength volt and wear resistant components of construction equipment. SEM results showed classical fatigue fractures, consistent with surface crack initiation. The speciments were cycled using under load controlled rotary bending fatigue tests. In this study, the fatigue crack initiation as well as the fatigue crack growth behavior and the fracture mechanism were investigated through observations of fracture surface boron steel(AISI 51B20).

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.174-178
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• 2001

Chrome-molybden steel or chrome steel for machine structures has been shown to excellent hardenability adding boron of a small amount at low carbon steel. These days, boron steel has been used high strength bolt and wear resistant components of construction equipment. SEM results showed classical fatigue fractures, consist with surface crack initiation. The specimens were tested repeatedly(9 times) under controlled load rotary bending fatigue tests. In the study, the fatigue crack initiation as well as fatigue crack growth behavior and the fracture mechanism were investigated through observations of fracture of boron steel surface(AISI 51B20).

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.299-305
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• 2003

This research is for the relationship with heat treatment cooling temprature and the characteristic of Mechanical properties of Boron-Addition-Steel, the main material and SM25C steel, the sub material, structure viewing fractography, hardness test, tensite test and are carried out after the manufacturing small-specimen treated with heat of $750^{\circ}C$, $850^{\circ}C$, $1050^{\circ}C$. The influence to the Mechanical properties accompanied by AISI51B20, Boron-Addition-steel shows the following result. 1. The influenc of heat treatment by the content of cabon-steel is dominant. Addition of boron result is Strengthening structure effectively by segregation and improving over all mechanical characters such as good. it results from the increase of temacity by the stability of inter granular with improvement of harden-ability. 2. Boron-Addition-Steel exist in the from of martensite structure accompanied by the ferrite precipitition centering around grain boundary, and is improved to Hv 200. 3. The height of harden-ability and fatigue stress the influence of heat results from crystal structure of martensite by difference of strength level in the structure of ferrite and doesn't have am effect on sensibility of temperature, and turns out to defend on production and growth of Matrix-structure-factor.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.10-22
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• 1990

A study has been investigated on the effect of mechanical properties (tension strength, rotary bending fatigue strength, wear resistance, hardness) according to the carbide particle size variation by the treatment of 1) quenching tempering, and 2) quenching, subzero treatment and tempering. The material used in this investigation was a typical bearing steel, high C high Cr, AISI E 52100. The result obtained in this study were as follows : (1) Finer the carbide particle size increasing the hardness and retained austenite in same quenching condition. (2) Finer the carbide particle size reduced the tension and rotary bending fatigue which were resulted from austenite grain growth and carbide precipitation on grain boundry that induced by carbide refine heat treatment. (3) Finer the carbide particel size increasing the wear resistance which were resulted by uniform distribution of carbide and increased hardness induced by microstructural uniform hardenability of matrix. (4) When the carbide particles were refinded, subzero treatment is effective only wear resistance and hardness.