The age hardening behaviour of MS350 maraging steel both in undeformed specimens and in specimens deformed immediately after ageing was studied. Experiments of short-time (15, 30 and 60 s) ageing at temperature up to 600• C were performed. It was found that after ageing at 480-500• C for 15-60 s without deformation the hardness reached the 450-525 HV. The time of ageing at 600• C to reach hardness 600 HV was 15 seconds. No precipitation in specimen aged at 500• C for 60 s was found in TEM and HRTEM investigations. Deformation immediately after ageing intensifies the process of hardening caused by temporary increase of temperature and increase of dislocation density. The hardness of specimens aged for 30 s and then deformed at 480-550• C was similar to the hardness at peak aged conditions (480 • C/4h) and reached 600-630 HV. Material produced in industrial trials of cold forward flow forming and following laboratory ageing was analyzed. Increase of hardness from 370 HV to 590-630 HV for specimens taken from thin walled flow formed tube as a result of ageing at 460-490• C for 30 minutes occurred.Keywords: maraging steel, short-time ageing, flow forming, precipitation kinetics, HRTEM Przedstawiono wyniki badań procesu starzenia stali maraging w gatunku MS350 dla próbek nieodkształconych i odkształ-conych bezpośrednio po starzeniu. Przeprowadzono eksperymenty starzenia krótkotrwałego (15, 30 i 60 s) w temperaturze do 600• C. Stwierdzono, że po starzeniu w zakresie temperatury 480-500• C w czasie 15-60 s bez odkształcenia, twardość osiągnęła 450-525 HV. Czas starzenia w temperaturze 600• C do osiągnięcia twardości 600 HV wynosił 15 s. Nie stwierdzono wydzieleń w próbkach starzonych w temperaturze 500• C przez 60 s w badaniach z zastosowaniem wysokorozdzielczego transmisyjnego mikroskopu elektronowego. Odkształcenie bezpośrednio po starzeniu intensyfikuje proces umacniania wydzieleniowego w skutek chwilowego wzrostu temperatury oraz wzrostu gęstości dyslokacji. Twardość próbek starzonych przez 30 s i odkształ-canych w zakresie temperatury 480-500• C była zbliżona do twardości uzyskiwanej dla warunków starzenia w celu uzyskania twardości maksymalnej (480• C/4godz.) i wynosiła 600-630 HV. Przeprowadzono badania materiału wytwarzanego w próbach przemysłowych zgniatania obrotowego i starzonego w warunkach laboratoryjnych. Dla próbek pobranych z rury cienkościennej uzyskano wzrost twardości z 370 HV do 590-630 HV w wyniku starzenia w zakresie temperatury 460-490• C przez 30 minut.
The study involved the development of the basics of production technology and the testing of the mechanical properties of a new grade of steel for forgings with increased strength and impact strength, intended for special products. The scope of the tests includ-ed a proposal for a new steel composition along with the production of ingots and its further processing into forgings in industrial con-ditions, using an input with various dimensions of the cross-section, proposed as a result of numerical calculations, including the performance of heat treatment in two variants. As a result of tests and analyses, it was found that the proposed technology enables the production of semi-finished products with the assumed level of strength and impact strength.
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