Formation of new Phases and Local High Temperatures in Nanoscaled Areals During Cyclic Fracture of Steel

Authors L.A. Gorbachov1, A.D. Pogrebnjak2,3 О.S. Kuzema4
Affiliations

1 East-Kazahkstan State Technical University, 69, A.K. Protazanov Str., 070004, Ust-Kamenogorsk City, The republic of Kazakhstan

2 Sumy State University, 2, Rimsky-Korsakov Str., 40007 Sumy, Ukraine

3 Ukraine Sumy Institute for Surface Modification, P.O. Box 163, 40030 Sumy, Ukraine

4 Sumy National Agrarian University, 60, Kirova Str., 40021 Sumy,Ukraine

Е-mail apogrebnjak@simp.sumy.ua
Issue Volume 1, Year 2009, Number 4
Dates Received 30.10.2009, in final form 01.12.2009
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PACS Number(s) 61.46 – w.62.20.Qp, 62.25. – q
Keywords Low-carbon steel, Fatigue deformation, Auger spectroscopy, Inner friction, X-ray structure analysis, Nanohardness.
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The first results allowing new understanding of physical processes occurring under fatigue deformation in low-carbon steels are reported. After every stage of fatigue deformation, samples were investigated using Auger electron spectroscopy, optical and scanning electron microscopy, atomic-force microscopy, measurements of internal friction, x-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), x-ray fluorescent analysis, measurements of nanohardness, and plotted fatigue kinetic curves. We found formation of “dark spots”, slip bands, and new phases as FeCO3 (iron carbonate), as well as iron oxalate C2FeO4. They seemed to be conditioned either by the process of cyclic friction occurring in slip planes of intensively deformed grains, which possibly resulted in separation of individual submicron structured metal particles, or by action of high temperatures arising in submicrovolume local regions, in which chemical reactions are initiated.

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