Optimization of the heat treatment process to obtain the required distribution of mechanical properties in the rail head of pearlitic rails
Journal Title: Journal of Metallic Materials - Year 2019, Vol 71, Issue 1
Abstract
The paper presents metallurgically based approach allowing the design of the parameters of the pearlitic rail head heat treatment to obtain the targeted mechanical properties. The described solutions enable predicting the progress of phase transformations, final microstructure and mechanical properties distribution in the pearlitic rail subject to heat treatment. It also allows the optimization of the cooling conditions to obtain a strictly defined distribution of mechanical properties in the rail head. The program is developed as a result of research activities performed in the HyPremRail R&D project. The core of the program consists of the phase transformations model which is implemented in the numerical code based on the FEM for heat transfer calculations. The model predicts the pearlite nodule and colony size as well as cementite interlamellar spacing. Using these parameters, strength properties distribution in the rail can be predicted, since the phase transformations model is combined with the Fourier heat transfer equation. To perform the numerical simulations, the boundary conditions for heat treatment should be defined. On the contrary, using inverse analysis, the program can provide the cooling conditions allowing obtaining defined mechanical properties distribution in rail head.
Authors and Affiliations
Roman Kuziak, Valeriy Pidvysotsk'yy, Krzysztof Radwański, Artur Mazur, Tomasz Zygmunt, Maciej Pietrzyk, Łukasz Rauch, Daniel Bachniak
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- DOI 10.32730/imz.2657-747.19.1.1
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