Influence of Deep Cryogenic Treatment (DCT) on Thermo Mechanical Performance of AISI H13 Tool Steel - Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering

MSCE > Vol.5 No.1, January 2017

Influence of Deep Cryogenic Treatment (DCT) on Thermo Mechanical Performance of AISI H13 Tool Steel ()

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DOI: 10.4236/msce.2017.51013 3,898 Downloads 5,696 Views Citations

Author(s)

Valmik Bhawar, Shreyans Khot, Prakash Kattire, Mohan Mehta, Rajkumar Singh

Affiliation(s)

Kalyani Center for Technology and Innovation, Bharat Forge Ltd., Pune, India.

ABSTRACT

Deep cryogenic treatment (DCT) is one of the most recent processes being used to treat tool steels. It is a supplementary treatment where components are treated below subzero temperatures for several cryo-soaking hours. This paper focuses on to study the effect of deep cryogenic treatment on Thermo mechanical properties of AISI H-13 tool steel. Deep cryogenic treatment at 32 hours of cryo-soaking time is applied and thermo mechanical performance of tool steel was analyzed by using pin on disk high temperature wear testing and stress rupture testings. The microstructural evolutions during DCT were evaluated by using scanning electron microscope (SEM). It was observed that microstructural modifications like increase in carbide density, fine and uniform martensitic structure during DCT had significantly improved properties.

KEYWORDS

Cryogenic Treatment, Wear Resistance, Tool Steel, H-13 Tool Steel

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Bhawar, V. , Khot, S. , Kattire, P. , Mehta, M. and Singh, R. (2017) Influence of Deep Cryogenic Treatment (DCT) on Thermo Mechanical Performance of AISI H13 Tool Steel. Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, 5, 91-101. doi: 10.4236/msce.2017.51013.

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