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Effect of various heat and surface treatment conditions on the fatigue behavior of SKD11 steel

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Effects of various heat treatment processes, including Q/L-T, Q/H-T, Q/L-T + Ti-nitriding, Q/H-T + Ti-nitriding, and Q/CT/H-T on the S-N fatigue behavior of SKD11 steel were investigated. Ti-nitriding is a modified nitriding process that entails a small addition of approximately 2 g to 20 g of electrolyzed fine, metallic titanium in a salt bath. In the present work, depending on the applied stress and surface conditions, different crack initiators were operative, resulting in three types of crack initiation. Multi-site crack initiation around the specimen surface, observed only for the Ti-nitrided specimens at a high stress range, decreased the resistance to S-N fatigue by reducing the crack initiation cycles, Ni. At low and intermediate stress ranges, the cracked carbide particles located near the surface or internally served as crack initiators for all the specimens, regardless of whether Ti-nitriding was applied, resulting in similar resistances to S-N fatigue. Different heat treatment parameters, such as tempering temperature and cryogenic treatment, did not affect the fatigue behavior of SKD11 steel to any considerable degree. The fatigue behavior of SKD11 specimens with different heat and surface treatment conditions is discussed based on micrographic and fractographic observations.

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  1. School of Nano and Advanced Materials Engineering, Engineering Research Institute, i-Cube Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju-si, Gyeongnam, 660-701, Korea

    Sanguk Jin & Sangshik Kim

  2. Department of Materials Processing, Korea Institute of Materials Science, Changwon-si, Gyeongnam, 641-010, Korea

    Youngseon Lee & Yongnam Kwon

  3. Mineral Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, 305-350, Korea

    Youngju Kim

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Jin, S., Kim, S., Lee, Y. et al. Effect of various heat and surface treatment conditions on the fatigue behavior of SKD11 steel. Met. Mater. Int. 15, 917–923 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12540-009-0917-7

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