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Effect of Aluminum Alloying on the Hot Deformation Behavior of Nano-bainite Bearing Steel

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Interest in using aluminum in nano-bainite steel, especially for high-carbon bearing steel, is gradually growing. In this study, GCr15SiMo and GCr15SiMoAl steels are introduced to investigate the effect of Al alloying on the hot deformation behavior of bearing steel. Results show that the addition of Al not only notably increases the flow stress of steel due to the strong strengthening effect of Al on austenite phase, but also accelerates the strain-softening rates for its increasing effect on stacking fault energy. Al alloying also increases the activation energy of deformation. Two constitutive equations with an accuracy of higher than 0.99 are proposed. The constructed processing maps show the expanded instability regions for GCr15SiMoAl steel as compared with GCr15SiMo steel. This finding is consistent with the occurrence of cracking on the GCr15SiMoAl specimens, revealing that Al alloying reduces the high-temperature plasticity of the bearing steel. On the contrary, GCr15SiMoAl steel possesses smaller grain size than GCr15SiMo steel, manifesting the positive effect of Al on bearing steel. Attention should be focused on the hot working process of bearing steel with Al.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the funding support to this work from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51601165, 51471146, and 51604241), the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (Grant No. E2015203250) and the Young Teachers Program of Yanshan University (Grant No. 14LGA005).

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  1. National Engineering Research Center for Equipment and Technology of Cold Strip Rolling, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    Z. N. Yang, L. Q. Dai & F. C. Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    C. H. Chu & F. C. Zhang

  3. Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    L. W. Wang

  4. Hubei Xinye Steel LTD, Huangshi, 435001, China

    A. P. Xiao

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Yang, Z.N., Dai, L.Q., Chu, C.H. et al. Effect of Aluminum Alloying on the Hot Deformation Behavior of Nano-bainite Bearing Steel. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 26, 5954–5962 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-017-3018-7

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