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Control of Phase Composition of Complexly Alloyed High-Temperature Steels Under Vacuum Carburizing and Quenching

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A process of hardening of steel 16Kh3NVFMB-Sh involving vacuum carburizing and subsequent hardening heat treatment is studied. It is shown that in order to obtain an optimum phase composition and, as a consequence, high operating properties, the steel should be subjected after carburizing to high tempering for formation of a fine ferrite-carbide structure. The treatment should be finished with quenching after the second heating, cold treatment and low tempering.

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Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 9, pp. 45 – 52, September, 2020.

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Smirnov, A.E. Control of Phase Composition of Complexly Alloyed High-Temperature Steels Under Vacuum Carburizing and Quenching. Met Sci Heat Treat 62, 586–593 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11041-021-00607-7

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