Application prospect of ultra high strength and toughness steel prepared by intensive quenching process

doi:10.13251/j.issn.0254-6051.2023.09.013

Abstract

Abstract: Intensive quenching process has attracted extensive attention from foreign scholars in recent years due to its characteristics of low energy consumption, no pollution and “super strengthening” effect on materials. The development status of intensive quenching process at home and abroad was introduced and a database of intensive quenching process parameters urgent to establish. Because the microstructure and properties of the ultra high strength and toughness steel treated by the intensive quenching process fit well with the performance requirements of the ultra high strength and toughness steel used in special equipment, the prospect of applying the intensive quenching process to the development of ultra high strength and toughness steel is put forward.

Key words: intensive quenching, ultra high strength and toughness steel, microstructure, properties

CLC Number:

TG151

Ming Zhangsheng, Zhao Jie, Li Kejian, Cao Pengjun, Zhu Bin, Feng Yi. Application prospect of ultra high strength and toughness steel prepared by intensive quenching process[J]. Heat Treatment of Metals, 2023, 48(9): 81-87.

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