The Effect of Carbide Concentration at Grain Boundaries on Thermal Stresses in Castings for Heat Treatment Furnace Tooling

• Autorzy: Bajwoluk Artur , Gutowski Paweł

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DOI

10.24425/afe.2024.149263

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Austenitic Fe-Ni-Cr alloys are commonly used for the production of castings intended for high-temperature applications. One area where Fe-Ni-Cr castings are widely used is the equipment for heat treatment furnaces. Despite the good heat resistance properties of the materials used for the castings, they tend to develop cracks and deformations over time due to cyclic temperature changes experienced under high temperature operating conditions. In the case of carburizing furnace equipment, thermal stresses induced by the temperature gradient in each operating cycle on rapidly cooled elements have a significant influence on the progressive fatigue changes. In the carburized subsurface zone, also the different thermal expansion of the matrix and non-metallic precipitates plays a significant role in stress distribution. This article presents the results of analyses of thermal stresses in the surface and subsurface layer of carburized alloy during cooling, taking into account the simultaneous effect of both mentioned stress sources. The basis for the stress analyzes were the temperature distribution in the cross-section of the cooled element as a function cooling time, determined numerically using FEM. These distributions were taken as the thermal load of the element. The study presents the results of analyses on the influence of carbide concentration increase on stress distribution changes caused by the temperature gradient. The simultaneous consideration of both thermal stress sources, i.e. temperature gradient and different thermal expansions of phases, allowed for obtaining qualitatively closer results than analyzing the stress sources independently.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

cast grates; thermal stresses; heat treatment equipment; thermal shock

PL

ruszty odlewane; naprężenia cieplne; sprzęt do obróbki cieplnej; szok termiczny

• Wydawca: Komisja Odlewnictwa Polskiej Akademii Nauk Oddział w Katowicach
• Czasopismo: Archives of Foundry Engineering
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: Vol. 24, iss. 1
• Strony: 149--157
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 38 poz., il., rys., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Bajwoluk Artur

• Mechanical Engineering Faculty, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3888-5011

autor

Gutowski Paweł

• Mechanical Engineering Faculty, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0618-2357

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2024)