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Item Formation of Carbon Steel Structure During Hot Plastic Deformation(Dnipro National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan, Dnipro, 2020) Vakulenko, Ihor O.; Bolotova, Daria M.; Proidak, Svitlana V.; Askerov, Hangardas; Cug, H.; Tchaikovska, H. O.EN: Purpose. The main purpose of the work is to determine the peculiarities of the development of recrystallization processes of carbon steel austenite depending on the degree of hot plastic deformation and to develop proposals for improving the structural state of the metal of the railway solid-rolled wheel. Methodology. Two carbon steels of a railway wheel with a minimum and maximum carbon content of 0.55 and 0.65 % and other chemical elements within the grade composition of the steel 60 were used as research material. Samples in the form of cylinders with a diameter of 20 mm and a height of 40 mm were heated in a muffle furnace, exposed for a certain time to equalize the temperature across the cross section of the sample. After that, the samples were subjected to hot compression on Instron type test machine. The temperature interval of hot compression of the samples was 950–1100 ºС, with deformation degrees in height in the range of 10–40%. The strain rate was 10-3–10-2 sec-1 . A standard etching was used to detect the boundaries of the austenite grains. Structural studies were performed using Epikvant type light microscope at magnifications sufficient to determine the structure of austenite grains. The grain size of austenite was determined by the methods of quantitative metallography. Findings. In the case of hot compression of the railway wheel blank, increasing the concentration of carbon atoms only within the grade composition of the steel is sufficient to increase the average austenite grain size, which confirms the proposals to limit the carbon content in the metal of railway wheels. The formation of a certain degree of austenite structural heterogeneity at the cross section of the rim or hub of the railway wheel is due to a change in the development mechanism of recrystallization processes depending on the deformation value. Under conditions of the same degree of hot plastic deformation, the replacement of one-time compression by fractional one is accompanied by a violation of the conditions of formation of the recrystallization nucleus. As a result of the specified replacement of the scheme of hot plastic deformation we obtain reduction in the austenite grain size. Originality. Based on a study of the development of collective recrystallization processes during the hot compression of carbon steel of the railway wheel, it was determined that the increase in carbon content contributes to the austenite grain increase. After hot compression of the wheel blank, the structural inhomogeneity of austenite that occurs is determined by a change in the mechanism of recrystallization processes development. During deformations above the critical degree, the recrystallization nuclei are formed and successively grow, which leads to the structure refinement. In the case of deformations below the critical value, the growth of austenite grains occurs according to the coalescence mechanism, according to which fragments of boundaries with large disorientation angles consistently disappear. Practical value. For austenite grain refining in massive elements of solid-rolled railway wheel we offer to replace one-time hot compression by fractional one.Item Influence Hot Plastic Deformation on the Structure and Properties of Carbon Steel of the Railway Wheel(Politechnika Śląska, 2023) Vakulenko, Ihor O.; Plitchenko, Serhii; Bolotova, Daria M.; Asgarov, KhangardashENG: The study is devoted to the explanation of the influence of hot plastic deformation on the properties of railway wheels. The shape of individual elements of the wheel provides for a different degree of hot compression, which determines the mechanism for the development of the recrystallization at austenite. With a decrease in the degree of the hot deformation, a certain proportion of grains with a low energy of linear stretching are formed in austenite. As a result, of the low mobility of such boundaries, the likelihood of preservation of part of the substructural state of the austenite increases, which should affect the formation of a colony of perlite during the cooling of the carbon steel. Against background preservation and a dependence of strength properties on the dispersion of the pearlite colony, the appearance in austenite of grain boundaries with a low energy of linear tension leads to a qualitative change in the plastic properties of railway wheel steel. The increase in plasticity of carbon steel with an increase in dispersion of the pearlite colony is due to a decrease in the effect of solid solution hardening and an increase in the role of the ferrite-cementite interface in the development processes of strain hardening carbon steel. The results obtained can be useful for improving the technology of manufacturing all-rolled railway wheels.Item Influence of Hot-Reduction Parameters on the Steel Austenite Structure of a Railway Wheel(Politechniki Śląskiej, Poland, 2016) Vakulenko, Ihor O.; Bolotova, Daria M.; Perkov, Oleg N.; Lisnyak, Alex G.ENG: The formation of grain structures with boundaries similar to substructures is one of the factors contributing to grain refinement in hot-reduction carbon steel. At the forming of a rim, the slight cooling-down (100-150°C) of the surface volumes is sufficient to increase their strength characteristics. After that, an increase in the magnitude of the hot-hardening of metal in the central rim volumes will lead to the formation of a more uniform fine-grain austenite structure over the rim section.Item Influence of Self-Tempering Temperature on Strength of Railway Wheel Disk after Accelerated Cooling(Дніпропетровський національний університет залізничного транспорту імені академіка В. Лазаряна, Дніпропетровськ, 2016) Vakulenko, Leonid I.; Bolotova, Daria M.; Proidak, Svitlana V.; Gryshchenko, Mykola A.; Vakulenko, Ihor O.ENG: Purpose. The paper aims at estimation of resource of strength increase for railway wheel disk. Methodology. The material for research was carbon steel of railway wheel containing 0.57%C, 0.65%Si, 0.45%Mn, 0.0029%S, 0,014%P, 0,11%Cr. A railway wheel was heated to the temperatures above Ac3 and was held at this temperature until the completion of аustenite homogenization processes and then the disk was cooled at a growing rate to a certain temperature. A temperature interval of completion of the speed-up wheel disk cooling was 200-450 C. Structure was studied with the use of research methods under electronic and light microscopes. After accelerated cooling the estimation of metal structure imperfection degree was carried out with the use of X-ray structural analysis method. The stress and yielding limit of carbon steel were determined at tension, at a speed of deformation10− − 3 1 s. The microhardness of steel structural components was estimated using the microhardness tester of PMT-3 type. Findings. The properties complex of railway wheel carbon steel depending on the temperature of the accelerated cooling termination is determined by the correlation of soften and work-hardening processes development. The effect of work-hardening is based on blocking of mobile dislocations due to a precipitation carbon atoms and dispersion work-hardening from the formed particles of carbidic phase. At the temperatures of the accelerated cooling termination of carbon steel higher than 300-350 C the decrease rate of strength properties is determined by the exceeding of total soften effect (from disintegration of solid solution, acceleration of spheroidithation and coalescence of cementite particles) above the dislocations blocking by the carbon atoms and dispersion work-hardening. Originality Authors proved that the strength level of the railway wheel carbon steel from the temperature of accelerated cooling completion is determined by the influence ratio of the solid solution satiety degree and dispersion work-hardening from a carbidic phase. For the temperatures of accelerated cooling termination 200-300 C a decrease of solid solution satiety degree is a basic factor, which determines the level of the strength characteristic. Practical value. When making the whole-rolled railway wheel one can increase the strength limit of disk metal using the accelerated cooling to the middle interval of temperatures, which was successfully proven by authors.Item Influence of the Shock Wave of Electric Discharge on the Fatigue Characteristics of Thermally Hardened Steel(springer, 2018) Vakulenko, Ihor O.; Bolotova, Daria M.; Hryshchenko, Mykola A.ENG: The procedure of treatment of thermally hardened steel by pulses of shock waves from electric discharges in water increases its hardness and the limited fatigue strength. As a result of the action of shockwave pulses, the number of dislocations increases. This guarantees the propagation of deformation in a cycle, which promotes the increase in cyclic fatigue strength.Item Influense of the Shock Wave Treatment on Fatigue Carbon Steel(Print ABC, Netanya, Israel, 2017) Vakulenko, Igor A.; Lisnyak, Alexander G.; Griaznova, Ludmila; Bolotova, Daria M.EN: The process of introducing additional number of dislocations in the heat-hardened steel after shock wave pulse treatment apparently is not accompanied by the development of dislocation annihilation. Furthermore, implementation of the deformation per cycle for the area of high-cycle fatigue is ensured by the participation of more dislocations. Thus, in the process of shock wave pulse treatment, the vast number of introduced dislocations is mobile and able to interact with further cyclic loading or it takes place additional unlock of previously fixed dislocations after hardening and tempering. Overall, on the destruction surface after treatment with shock wave pulses it is found increased number of dislocations that are located in different crystallographic slip systems. They can be seen as evidence of the development of quite complex dislocation reactions that increases the metal limited endurance during cyclic loading.Item Strain Hardening of Low-Carbon Steel in the Area of Jerky Flow(Дніпровський національний університет залізничного транспорту імені академіка В. Лазаряна, Дніпро, 2021) Vakulenko, Ihor O.; Bolotova, Daria M.; Proidak, Svitlana V.; Bulent, Kurt; Erdogdu, Ahmet Emrah; Chaikovska, H. O.; Asgarov, KhangardashENG: Purpose. The aim of this work is to assess the effect of ferrite grain size of low-carbon steel on the development of strain hardening processes in the area of nucleation and propagation of deformation bands. Methodology. Low-carbon steels with a carbon content of 0.06–0.1% C in various structural states were used as the material for study. The sample for the study was a wire with a diameter of 1mm. The structural studies of the metal were carried out using an Epiquant light microscope. Ferrite grain size was determined using quantitative metallographic techniques. Different ferrite grain size was obtained as a result of combination of thermal and termo mechanical treatment. Vary by heating temperature and the cooling rate, using cold plastic deformation and subsequent annealing, made it pos-sible to change the ferrite grain size at the level of two orders of magnitude. Deformation curves were obtained during stretching the samples on the Instron testing machine. Findings. Based on the analysis of stretching curves of low-carbon steels with different ferrite grain sizes, it has been established that the initiation and propagation of plastic de-formation in the jerky flow area is accompanied by the development of strain hardening processes. The study of the nature of increase at dislocation density depending on ferrite grain size of low-carbon steel, starting from the moment of initiation of plastic deformation, confirmed the existence of relationship between the development of strain harden-ing at the area of jerky flow and the area of parabolic hardening curve. Originality. One of the reasons for decrease in Luders deformation with an increase of ferrite grain size of low-carbon steel is an increase in strain hardening indicator, which accelerates decomposition of uniform dislocations distribution in the front of deformation band. The flow stress during initiation of plastic deformation is determined by the additive contribution from the frictional stress of the crys-tal lattices, the state of ferrite grain boundaries, and the density of mobile dislocations. It was found that the size of dis-location cell increases in proportion to the diameter of ferrite grain, which facilitates the development of dislocation annihilation during plastic deformation. Practical value. Explanation of qualitative dependence of the influence of ferrite grain size of a low-carbon steel on the strain hardening degree and the magnitude of Luders deformation will make it possible to determine the optimal structural state of steels subjected to cold plastic deformation.Item Structural Changes at Metal of a Railway Wheel Along Rolling Surface(Nevsehir University, Turkey, 2021) Vakulenko, Igor A.; Kurt, Bulent; Bolotova, Daria M.; Colova, O.ENG: As a result rolling of the hardened carbon steel without slipping, only due to normal loading, a decrease in hardness is observed. The observed decrease in hardness is due to the development of softening processes during plastic deformation. Additional slippage at the contact points of the samples accelerates development of softening effects in the hardened metal. It has been found that softening during rolling of a quenched metal is accompanied by a refinement of the coherent scattering regions, increase in internal stresses, and increase at number of crystal structure defects.