TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of Ti alloying on resistance to hydrogen embrittlement in (Nb+Mo)-alloyed ultra-high-strength hot-stamping steels
AU - Yoo, Jisung
AU - Jo, Min Chul
AU - Jo, Min Cheol
AU - Kim, Seongwoo
AU - Oh, Jinkeun
AU - Bian, Jian
AU - Sohn, Seok Su
AU - Lee, Sunghak
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by CBMM , POSCO Technical Research Laboratories , the Korea University Grant for first corresponding author, and Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Center for Creative Industrial Materials.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by CBMM, POSCO Technical Research Laboratories, the Korea University Grant for first corresponding author, and Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Center for Creative Industrial Materials.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/7/22
Y1 - 2020/7/22
N2 - A boron-containing 1.8–2.0-GPa-grade hot-stamping steel, which has been attracting great attentions as reinforcing automotive parts, often leads to the deteriorated resistance to hydrogen embrittlement due to its high strength level. The micro-alloying elements such as Nb and Mo have been known to improve the resistance to hydrogen embrittlement by refining grains and providing interfaces of precipitates. Ti is also utilized for the mentioned purposes; however, the effect of Ti on hydrogen embrittlement, particularly in (Nb + Mo) multi-alloyed system, has not been revealed clearly yet. In this study, therefore, the alloying effects of Ti on resistance to hydrogen embrittlement were investigated via controlling Ti content and conducting slow-strain-rate tensile (SSRT) tests and thermal desorption analyses (TDA) after the hydrogen charging. The complex addition of Nb, Mo, and Ti promotes the formation of nanoscale (Nb,Ti)C and (Nb,Mo,Ti)C complex precipitates along with coarse Ti(C,N) particles. The increased Ti content to 0.03 wt% increases the volume fraction of nanoscale precipitates, which effectively refines the prior austenite grain size and interfacial incoherency, thereby providing stable hydrogen trapping sites with the higher activation energy for hydrogen desorption. Although the increased Ti also promotes the formation of brittle coarse Ti(C,N) particles, this negative effect of the particles can be minimized or prevented by the decrease in particle size due to the interaction with Nb and Mo.
AB - A boron-containing 1.8–2.0-GPa-grade hot-stamping steel, which has been attracting great attentions as reinforcing automotive parts, often leads to the deteriorated resistance to hydrogen embrittlement due to its high strength level. The micro-alloying elements such as Nb and Mo have been known to improve the resistance to hydrogen embrittlement by refining grains and providing interfaces of precipitates. Ti is also utilized for the mentioned purposes; however, the effect of Ti on hydrogen embrittlement, particularly in (Nb + Mo) multi-alloyed system, has not been revealed clearly yet. In this study, therefore, the alloying effects of Ti on resistance to hydrogen embrittlement were investigated via controlling Ti content and conducting slow-strain-rate tensile (SSRT) tests and thermal desorption analyses (TDA) after the hydrogen charging. The complex addition of Nb, Mo, and Ti promotes the formation of nanoscale (Nb,Ti)C and (Nb,Mo,Ti)C complex precipitates along with coarse Ti(C,N) particles. The increased Ti content to 0.03 wt% increases the volume fraction of nanoscale precipitates, which effectively refines the prior austenite grain size and interfacial incoherency, thereby providing stable hydrogen trapping sites with the higher activation energy for hydrogen desorption. Although the increased Ti also promotes the formation of brittle coarse Ti(C,N) particles, this negative effect of the particles can be minimized or prevented by the decrease in particle size due to the interaction with Nb and Mo.
KW - 32MnB5 steel
KW - Complex carbide
KW - Grain refinement
KW - Hot-stamping steel
KW - Resistance to hydrogen embrittlement
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U2 - 10.1016/j.msea.2020.139763
DO - 10.1016/j.msea.2020.139763
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087076721
SN - 0921-5093
VL - 791
JO - Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing
JF - Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing
M1 - 139763
ER -