Solidification microstructure of M2 high speed steel by different casting technologies

作     者：Zhou Xuefeng Fang Feng Jiang Jianjing 

作者机构：Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallic Materials Southeast University Nanjing 211189 China 

出 版 物：《China Foundry》 (中国铸造（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第8卷第3期

页      面：290-294页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 080502[工学-材料学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：supported by the Fund Project for Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements of Jiangsu Province China(No.BA2010139) 

主　　题：high speed steel continuous casting iron mould casting eutectic carbide 

摘      要：The present work investigated the solidification microstructure of AISI M2 high speed steel manufactured by different casting technologies, namely iron mould casting and continuous casting. The results revealed that the as-cast structure of the steel was composed of the iron matrix and the M2C eutectic carbide networks, which were greatly refined in the ingot made by continuous casting process, compared with that by the iron mould casting process. M2C eutectic carbides presented variation in their morphologies and growth characteristics in the ingots by both casting methods. In the ingot by iron mould casting, they have a plate-like morphology and grow anisotropically. However, in the ingot made by continuous casting, the carbides evolved into the fiber-like shape that exhibited little characteristics of anisotropic growth. It was noticed that the fiber-like M2C was much easier to decompose and spheroidize after heated, as a result, the carbides refined remarkably, compared with the case of plate-like carbides in the iron mould casting ingot.