Elimination of Surface Defects in High Tensile Steel for Wheel Rim Application
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- 作者：T. K. Roy
- 关键词：Wheel rim grade ; Thick plate ; Longitudinal crack ; Transverse tear mark ; Micro ; alloyed peritecric steel ; Mold temperature profile
- 刊名：Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 页码：93-99
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- 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
- 刊物主题：Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Classical Mechanics; Structural Mechanics; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk;
- 出版者：Springer US
- ISSN：1864-1245
- 卷排序：17
文摘
One of the important applications of high tensile steel grades is in wheel rims by the automotive industry. High tensile steel facilitates vehicle weight reduction under the ‘Go Green’ initiative. Along with weight reduction, in recent times, the surface quality requirement of steels for wheel rim applications has also gained a significant focus, and in many cases, it is becoming the cause of rejection at the customers’ processing line. It is known that owing to chemistry requirements such high strength steel grades generally show peritectic behavior during solidification and are prone to surface defects. Tata Steel India produces several wheel rim grades of varying strength levels. In one such high manganese and micro-alloyed peritectic steel grade, the rejection by the customer on account of surface defects was a major concern. The defects consisted of typical longitudinal cracks of varying dimensions along with the unique defects in transverse direction named tear marks on the surface of 100-mm-thick plates rolled from 215-mm-thick slab. In subsequent stages, these plates were processed into rim profiles through hot working by the wheel customer. The paper highlights how systematic study led to arrive at root causes and helped redesign steel chemistry to ensure zero rejection for surface quality without affecting mechanical property requirements.