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Prediction of Phase Transformation and Hardness Distribution of AISI 1045 Steel After Spot Continual Induction Hardening

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An numerical and experimental study of spot continual induction hardening (SCIH) for AISI 1045 steel was carried out to gain a better understanding of this non-stationary and transverse flux induction hardening treatment. The SCIH device was set up by assembling the single-turn coil inductor to a five-axis cooperating computer numerical control system. The influence of inductor velocity, input current, and quenching medium on temperature field was estimated via the SCIH model, and the simulated micro-hardness and microstructure were validated by experimental verification. The heating delay phenomenon appearing in the SCIH process had been analyzed.

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Acknowledgments

The financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 51175392), the Key Projects of Hubei Province Science & Technology Pillar Program (No. 2014BAA012), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. 2012-IV-067 and No. 2013-VII-020 are gratefully acknowledged. The authors are grateful to all the staff of Hubei Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Automotive Components for supporting this work.

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China

    Shengxiao Zhu & Huajie Mao

  2. School of automotive Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China

    Zhou Wang, Xunpeng Qin & Kai Gao

  3. Hubei Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Automotive Components, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China

    Shengxiao Zhu, Zhou Wang, Xunpeng Qin, Huajie Mao & Kai Gao

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Zhu, S., Wang, Z., Qin, X. et al. Prediction of Phase Transformation and Hardness Distribution of AISI 1045 Steel After Spot Continual Induction Hardening. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 24, 3919–3932 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-015-1680-1

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