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Effect of plastic processing and controlled cooling on microstructure and mechanical properties of experimental steel grades with microalloyed with Ti, V and/or Nb, varying in the content of Mo is presented as an offer for mining industry for replacement traditionally heat-treatable hardenability grades. The goal of the work is producing microstructure condition, which after controlled hot forging and direct heat treatment, involving quenching and self-tempering, are meant to provide good combination of mechanical properties, such as TYS 800 MPa, UTS 1050 MPa, elongation to fracture at least A5 15% and/or impact strength at room temperature KCV 60 J/cm 2 . Hardenability assessment and dilatometric examination allowed formulation of direct heat treatment guidelines, taking into consideration fields of temperature and strain in a typical hot forging process, estimated numerically, with the use of plastometric tests results, as well as the use of unique cooling cycles after forging.On the basis of numerical analysis of thermomechanical parameters and temperature progression, hot forging and direct cooling conditions were selected to achieve assumed structural components, morphology and dispersion of both grain and precipitates. For established heat transfer model and experimentally plotted cooling curves numerical analysis of direct cooling, enabled by definition of characteristic points of austenite transformation and CCT diagrams was conducted. The modeling aided with dilatometric characterization enabled prediction of transformation products distribution. The formulated conclusions were verified in the experimental sampling of forging, evaluating the applicability of designed combinations of chemical composition and cooling cycle for selected forged part for mining industry.Keywords: microalloyed steel, thermomechanical processing, direct cooling, hammer forging, grain control Przedstawiono badania wpływu warunków odkształcania na gorąco i kontrolowanego chłodzenia na efektywność umocnienia eksperymentalnych stali z mikrododatkami Nb, Ti oraz V o zmiennej zawartości Mo. Pierwszym etapem pracy było zaprojektowanie składów chemicznych stali mikrostopowych, które po kontrolowanym kuciu na gorąco oraz obróbce cieplnej, polegającej na zahartowaniu i samoodpuszczeniu odkuwki bezpośrednio po kuciu, pozwolą na uzyskanie właściwości mechanicznych, tj.: granicy plastyczności 800 MPa, wytrzymałości na rozciąganie 1050 MPa, wydłużeniu A 5 15% i udarności w temperaturze otoczenia KCV 60 J/cm 2 . W oparciu o wyniki badań hartowności i analizę dylatometryczną opracowano wytyczne bezpośredniej obróbki cieplnej, uwzględniając obliczenia równowagi faz i wpływ temperatury na udział wydzieleń w wybranych wytopach oraz wyznaczone numerycznie pola temperatur dla typowego procesu kucia na gorąco, oparte o próby plastometryczne na symulatorze Gleeble 3800, oraz kontrolowane chłodzenie po kuciu.W oparciu numeryczną analizę parametrów termo-mechanicznych i zmian temperatury odkuwki modelowej dobrano warunki procesu kształtowania oraz sch...

The article presents an experimental study of a system consisting of a piezoelectric energy harvesting device, Graetz bridge rectifier, capacitor, voltage comparator and radio transmitter. In the presented experimental study, the recovered electrical energy is accumulated in the capacitor and is used to send signals by a radio transmitter. In the first part, the application of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices based on the cantilever beam in wireless monitoring systems is discussed. In the second part, the mathematical model of energy conversion in the piezoelectric energy harvesting devices is presented. In the third part, the characteristics obtained during laboratory research are presented.

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Piezoelectric energy harvesting from rotating applications can be realized by the use of harvesters, the basic part of which is a piezoelectric material. Such harvesters have various structures but most of them contain a cantilever composite beam, which consists of the carrying material and the piezoelectric material. A diversification of the harvester structures is, above all, the result of the application of additional mechanical structures, the task of which is to deform the cantilever composite beam. In contrast to these approaches, this article presents the simulation and laboratory investigation of the piezoelectric energy harvesting from a rotating shaft without the use of any additional mechanical structure. Energy harvesting was realized by the use of macro fiber composite (MFC), which was directly glued onto the rotating shaft surface, instead of on a cantilever beam being a part of the additional mechanical structure. In the theoretical part of the article, a mathematical model of piezoelectric energy harvesting from the rotating shaft with the use of MFC was elaborated. This model was verified on the basis of the laboratory experiments. On the basis of the simulation and laboratory experiments it was found that both an increase in the rotation frequency of the shaft and an increase in the stress in a rotating shaft caused a linear increase in the voltage generated by the MFC and caused an exponential increase in power generated by the MFC. These characteristics are significantly different to the characteristics obtained for harvesters consisting of a cantilever beam, in which the maximal value of a voltage and a power is generated only for a resonant frequency of a cantilever beam. In spite of these differences the optimal load resistance for the specific rotation frequency of the shaft can be calculated from the formula used to calculate the optimal load resistance for a harvester based on a cantilever beam.