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Jun 3rd - 5th 2015, Brno, Czech Republic, EU RELATION BETWEEN THE GRAIN SIZE DEVELOPLMENT AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF 34CrMo4 STEEL AFTER FOUR TYPES OF TREATMENT Pavel KUČERA a, Eva MAZANCOVÁ b a Vítkovice Cylinders a.s., Technical department, Czech Republic, Ruská 24/83, 700 90 Ostrava – Vítkovice, Czech Republic, pavel.kucera@vitkovice.cz b VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Czech Republic, Tř. 17. listopadu 15/2172, 708 33 Ostrava – Poruba, Czech Republic, eva.mazancova@vsb.cz Abstract Steel 34CrMo4 is world widely used steel type for the variety of products, for example forgings, castings, shafts, bars etc. Desired mechanical properties of mentioned steel can be achieved by various treatments such as in a metallurgical process by titanium, niobium, vanadium, zircon or nitrogen microalloying. Another suitable way how to achieve desired mechanical properties is use of different heat treatment modes due to excellent hardenability and temperability of steel 34CrMo4 or combination of these methods in thermomechanical forming. To achieve the best combination of mechanical properties, the grain size is the one of the most important microstructural parameters. In this article, the development of 34CrMo4 steel grain size together with the microstructure after four treatments of the material including as hot rolled state, after normalization annealing, normalization annealing with subsequent quenching and tempering and as final treatment of quenching and tempering were evaluated in relation to achieved values of mechanical properties after each treatment. Except the grainsized and microstructural