Stress-strain behaviour simulation of vanadium microalloyed steel with the internal defects during two different heating strategies

Abstract

This paper is focused on the explanation of a linkage between two different heating strategies and a grow of the internal casting defects, that are already present in continuously cast blooms made from vanadium micro-alloyed Cr-Mo steel. Internal defects initiation and propagation can be associated to unsuitable casting and heating conditions. Small casting voids surrounded by ferrite-bainite network enriched by carbides forming elements produce perfect conditions for crack grow during the bloom straightening, heating in the soaking pit and/or heat treatment. Moreover, we simulated the stress-strain behaviour of continuously cast round bloom during heating in soaking pit using the FEM software. It is shown that optimized heating strategy led to significantly lower rates of the plastic strain as a crucial value for the crack propagation.