Effect of thermomechanical cyclic quenching and tempering treatments on microstructure,mechanical and electrochemical properties of AISI 1345 steel

作     者：Muhammad Arslan Hafeez Ameeq Farooq Kaab Bin Tayyab and Muhammad Adnan Arshad Muhammad Arslan Hafeez;Ameeq Farooq;Kaab Bin Tayyab;Muhammad Adnan Arshad

作者机构：School of Civil and Environmental EngineeringNational University of Sciences and TechnologyIslamabad 44000Pakistan Department of Metallurgy&Materials EngineeringUniversity of the Punjab54590 LahorePakistan 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Minerals,Metallurgy and Materials》 (矿物冶金与材料学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第28卷第4期

页      面：688-698页

核心收录：

学科分类：0709[理学-地质学] 0819[工学-矿业工程] 08[工学] 0806[工学-冶金工程] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 080502[工学-材料学] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0703[理学-化学] 080201[工学-机械制造及其自动化] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 0702[理学-物理学] 

主　　题：thermomechanical treatment cyclic heat-treatment nanoindentation potentiodynamic polarization electrochemical impedance spectroscopy 

摘      要：Thermomechanical cyclic quenching and tempering(TMCT)can strengthen steels through a grain size reduction mechanism.The effect of TMCT on microstructure,mechanical,and electrochemical properties of AISI 1345 steel was investigated.Steel samples heated to 1050℃,rolled,quenched to room temperature,and subjected to various cyclic quenching and tempering heat treatments were named TMCT-1,TMCT-2,and TMCT-3 samples,respectively.Microstructure analysis revealed that microstructures of all the treated samples contained packets and blocks of well-refined lath-shaped martensite and retained austenite phases with varying grain sizes(2.8–7.9μm).Among all the tested samples,TMCT-3 sample offered an optimum combination of properties by showing an improvement of 40%in tensile strength and reduced 34%elongation compared with the non-treated sample.Nanoindentation results were in good agreement with mechanical tests as the TMCT-3 sample exhibited a 51%improvement in indentation hardness with almost identical reduced elastic modulus compared with the non-treated sample.The electrochemical properties were analyzed in 0.1 M NaHCO_(3) solution by potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.As a result of TMCT,the minimum corrosion rate was 0.272 mm/a,which was twenty times less than that of the nontreated sample.The impedance results showed the barrier film mechanism,which was confirmed by the polarization results as the current density decreased.