The Effect of the Welding Thermal Cycle on Heat Affected Zone Hardening for 500mpa Grade Screw Thread Steel

摘要

The hardening behavior of the welding heat affected zone (HAZ) with different heat input for 500MPa grade screw thread steel is investigated in this paper. The single welding thermal cycle was applied to the test steel by a Gleeble-3500 thermal simulator. With the definition of hardness ratio, relative hardness factor and partial hardness zone, the HAZ Max hardness, hardness distribution and hardness mechanism of steel were analyzed. The results show that the HAZ hardness is always higher than the base steel hardness. The hardness ratio is increasing with the heat input decreased. The distribution of relative hardness factor of HAZ can be expressed by the Avrami equation which can describe the distribution of HAZ hardness. The width of partial hardness zone increases rapidly with the heat input increased. But at a certain degree of heat input, the width of partial hardness decreases slightly. The microstructure generated by heat input is the intrinsic factor of the HAZ hardness variation. The HAZ hardness enhances as the martensite content increases. On the contrary the HAZ hardness reduces as the ferrite content enhance on condition the heat input increase or the observed area is far away from the HAZ.