An extensive investigation has been carried out on six commercial heats of pearlitic rail steel to study the influence of nonmetallic inclusion characteristics on the tensile, fatigue, and fracture toughness properties. The steels investigated were made through the basic oxygen furnace (BOF)-continuous casting route and rolled in the rail and structural mill into 90 kg/mm2 ultimate tensile strength (UTS) grade rails. While tensile properties (yield strength (YS), UTS, and elongation) of the rail steels investigated were found to be insensitive to inclusion type and volume fraction at their present level (0.23 to 0.45%), the fracture toughness and high-cycle fatigue properties were found to be inclusion sensitive. The fracture toughness values of the steels were found to range between 42.33 and 49.88 MPa root m; higher values, in general, were obtained in heats exhibiting lower volume fractions (0.15 to 0.19%) of sulfide inclusions. The high-cycle fatigue limit, i.e., stress corresponding to 107 cycles, was found to be higher in cleaner steels, particularly in those with lower volume fractions of oxide inclusions. This phenomenon was corroborated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations of fracture surfaces, where oxide inclusions in particular were found to be instrumental in crack initiation. Although fatigue life did not show any direct correlation with the volume fraction of sulfides, elongated MnS inclusions were sometimes observed at crack initiation sites of fatigue-tested specimens.


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    Title :

    Influence of nonmetallic inclusion characteristics on the mechanical properties of rail steel


    Contributors:
    Dhua, S.K. (author) / Ray, A. (author) / Sen, S.K. (author) / Prasad, M.S. (author) / Mishra, K.B. (author) / Jha, S. (author)


    Publication date :

    2000


    Size :

    10 Seiten, 11 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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