InfluenceofTiPrecipitateinCarburizingSteelContaining.PDFVIP

When cold forged gear steel is carburized, fine 1. Considerations on steel for cold forged gears precipitates of TiC prevent austenite grain from coarsening. While preventing grain from coarsening, Steel for cold forged gears exploits the pinning these precipitates increase the deformation resistance effect exerted by carbonitrides of elements such as against cold forging due to precipitation hardening. Al, Nb and Ti to prevent the coarsening of crystal This study evaluates the influence of TiC precipitates grains. To effectively exert this pinning effect, it is on the deformation resistance, as well as their necessary to secure a large number density of characteristics that work to prevent grain coarsening carbonitride precipitates during carburization by during the carburization of a steel containing boron. suppressing Ostwald ripening, in which large precipitates grow larger by absorbing adjacent Introduction smaller precipitates. Since Ostwald ripening is a phenomenon accompanying atomic diffusion, alloying Cold forging has caught the attention of elements with low diffusion coefficients are preferable automobile manufacturers in recent years because for effectively exerting the pinning effect 1). The the process emits less CO2 and enables lower-cost diffusion coefficients of Al, Nb and Ti (Table 1) production than conventional forming methods indicate that Ti is the most effective element in such as cutting and hot forging. In particular, t