CORRELATION BETWEEN HARDNESS AND TENSILE PROPERTIES IN ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH DUAL PHASE STEELS – SHORT COMMUNICATION.docVIP

M. Ga?ko, G. Rosenberg: Correlation between hardness and tensile properties in ultra-high strength dual phase steels – short communication 155 CORRELATION BETWEEN HARDNESS AND TENSILE PROPERTIES IN ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH DUAL PHASE STEELS – SHORT COMMUNICATION 1,* Martin Ga?ko , Gejza Rosenberg1 1Institute of materials research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Ko?ice - Slovakia *corresponding author: Tel.: +421 55 729 2473, e-mail: mgasko@imr.saske.sk Resume Article info The possibility to predict yield strength, strength limit, fatigue live estimation as well as other mechanical properties depending on values of materials hardness is commonly known and it is often used in practice. The main aim of this contribution is to review the possibilities of application of correlation relationships between hardness and ultimate tensile strength of steel sheets in various structural states. The experiments were performed on advanced steels with structure which is composed from ferrite and martensite (dual phase steels). Article history: Received 27 May 2011 Accepted 28 July 2011 Online 3 November 2011 Keywords: Dual phase steel Vickers hardness Mechanical properties Available online: http://fstroj.uniza.sk/PDF/2011/27-2011.pdf ISSN 1335-0803 1. Introduction Although, basically the hardness test of HB for different materials [1-3]. For aluminium alloys, in comparison with steels, generally the smaller values of coefficient k are observed (Fig.1). This can be well seen from results mentioned in Fig. 1 based on work [3]. In this contribution the fact that the value of coefficient k, in dependence on microstructure state (SDAS secondary dendrite arm spacing), is in the range from 2.63 to 2.88 was found. At the steels, the coefficient k ranges the most frequently in the interval from 3.0 to 3.6. the metal materials evaluates only