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• Title:
  EFFECT OF UNCONVENTIONAL METHODS OF CUTTING ON MICROSTRUCTURE, TOPOGRAPHY AND MICROHARDNESS CHANGES IN STEEL
• Creator:
  Leszczyńska-Madej, Beata;
  Richert, Maria;
  Sak, Teresa
• Description:
  The carbon steel for quenching and tempering has been cut with two different techniques, plasma arc and laser. The influence of these two unconventional methods of cutting on the changes of microstructure and properties has been studied in this paper. The structure changes after cutting were investigated by means of both light and scanning electron microscopy, additionally microhardness in the heat affected zone was measured. The performed investigations show that both methods of cutting have a strong influence on the structure and properties of investigated steels. Characteristic structure of cut area was a bainitic structure. The amount of bainite structure decreased with increased distance from the edge of the cutting sample. The plasma arc cutting influences the structure changes more than laser beam. The bainitic structure after this method of cutting was observed to a depth of near 130 micrometers (laser), whereas after plasma arc – average 400 micrometers. Measured microhardness at the edge after cutting by both methods was about 280Hv0.1 what makes up 130% increase comparing to material beyond the heat affected zone.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2012.12.31
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed Article
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Metallurgy and Foundry Engineering; Vol. 38 No. 2 (2012); 109;
  2300-8377;
  1230-2325
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Metallurgy and Foundry Engineering
• Relation: https://journals.agh.edu.pl/mafe/article/view/394/292
• Subject:
  plasma arc cutting;
  laser cutting;
  structure changes;
  microhardness changes;
  heat affected zones
• Identifier: https://journals.agh.edu.pl/mafe/article/view/394 ;
  10.7494/mafe.2012.38.2.109
• Data provider:
  AGH University of Science and Technology Journals
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• Type:
  text