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An automotive component (steering helical gear) made from low-alloy structural steel SCr420H was gas-carburized and oil-quenched. Axial contraction of total length was measured after such case-hardening process. Using DEFORM-HT Ver 6.1 simulation tool incorporating phase transformation kinetics, the causal factor of negative axial distortion is studied. Analysis of time-dependent displacement, temperature, phase transformation, and stress-strain generation is presented. Total strain and individual strain (e.g., thermal, elastic, plastic, phase transformation, and transformation plasticity strain) are included. Three simulations consisting of case hardening with transformation plasticity (TP), case hardening without TP, and through hardening with TP were conducted to asses the influence of transformation plasticity and martensite as well as retained austenite in contributing the axial contraction of total length. Finally, transformation plasticity has a greater influence than volume fraction of martensite and retained austenite in producing the negative axial distortion.
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The authors would like to express their gratitude to Scientific Forming Technologies Co. (USA) and Yamanaka Engineering Co. Ltd. (Japan) for the cooperation with the numerical simulation by FEM code of DEFORM-HT. This research was partially supported by MEXT: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2006, No. 18560688.
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Sugianto, A., Narazaki, M., Kogawara, M. et al. Distortion Analysis of Axial Contraction of Carburized-Quenched Helical Gear. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 19, 194–206 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-009-9476-9
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