Construction of Flow Stress Constitutive Equation for 3Cr1Mo0.25V Steel

Abstract

The flow stress change of 3Cr1Mo0.25V steel was researched in this paper through hot compression tests performed in a temperature range from 800 to 900oC and with a strain rate variation from 0.01 to 10s-1. Flow stress constitutive equation was constructed according to true stress-strain curves of 3Cr1Mo0.25V steel. Results indicate that the dynamic recovery is the dynamic softening mechanism of 3Cr1Mo0.25V steel. The flow stress increases with increasing strain rates and decreases with increasing temperature. The rheological behavior of 3Cr1Mo0.25V steel can be characterized by the parameter of Zener-Hollomon in a high temperature range. As for 3Cr1Mo0.25V steel, the activation energy of Q evaluated by the linear regression is about 142.9 kJ/mol.