Determination of solidus and liquidus temperatures for bearing steel by thermal analysis methods

Abstract

The first part of presented paper is devoted to comparison of solidus and liquidus temperatures determined by two methods of thermal analysis for one real steel grade 100CrMo7. Two modern devices for high-temperature analysis were used. The direct thermal analysis method was used during an experiments realised on large samples (22 g) at NETZSCH JUPITER device. Small bearing steel samples ( up to 210 mg) were studied by differential thermal analysis method at Setaram SETSYS 18(TM). The robustness of both used thermo-analytical methods was documented. Measured results were compared with liquidus and solidus temperatures used in industry and calculated by specialized IDS and ThermoCalc software. Measured temperatures differ from the theoretically calculated by tens for liquidus to more than 100 degrees C for solidus.