Austenitic heat resistant steel STR35 for exhaust valves of automobile engines have good heat resistibility as well as oxidation due to precipitation hardening and its chemical composition. The hardness in STR35 is increasing with aging time, reaching...
Austenitic heat resistant steel STR35 for exhaust valves of automobile engines have good heat resistibility as well as oxidation due to precipitation hardening and its chemical composition. The hardness in STR35 is increasing with aging time, reaching a maximum, followed by the hardness decrease on overaging. M23C6 carbides are initially precipitated while M23C6 and M6C carbides with aging time, and elogation and reduction of area are decreasing.
In this study, Hot compression test in the temperature range of 750~1250ㅇC and strain rate of 5mm/sec, 20mm/sec and 100mm/sec. The shape of flow stress curves indicated that the softneing was promoted by dynamic recovery followed by dynamic recrystallization whit high level of recovery. The microstructure evolution indicated that even though after large straining as that of the steady state stresses a combination of strained and recrystallized grains was observed.