Relationships among crystallographic texture, fracture behavior and Charpy impact toughness in API X100 pipeline steel》.pdf

Materials Science Engineering A 641 (2015) 96–106 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Materials Science Engineering A journal homepage: /locate/msea Relationships among crystallographic texture, fracture behavior and Charpy impact toughness in API X100 pipeline steel Xiao-Long Yang, Yun-Bo Xu n, Xiao-Dong Tan, Di Wu The State Key Laboratory of Rolling and Automation, Northeastern University, P.O. Box 105, No. 11, Lane 3, Wenhua Road, Heping District, Shenyang 110819, People ’s Republic of China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The crystallographic texture and Charpy impact toughness have been investigated in American Petro- Received 24 November 2014 leum Institute (API) X100 pipeline steel, and the different rolling processes are applied to adjust the Received in revised form crystallographic texture for the sake of improving impact toughness. It has been found that the very 9 June 2015 weak textures exist in the steel only rolled in the recrystallization region of austenite, but the intensity of Accepted 9 June 2015 the unfavorable {001} 〈110〉 component is quite high. The {001} 〈110〉 texture is harmful for impact Available online 12 June 2015 toughness and needed to be decreased in most cases. It is confirmed that the appropriate controlled Keywords: rolling processes effectively reduce the intens