Shanwu Yang

Effect of Carbon Content on Mechanical Properties and Weather Resistance of High Performance Bridge Steels

The influence of carbon content on the mechanical properties of high yield strength bridge steel has been investigated. The results show that the excellent mechanical properties and corrosion resistance are obtained for the steel with carbon content of 0.03%–0.05% (mass percent). According to the results, a new weathering bridge steel plate with carbon content of 0.045% (mass percent) has been developed. The appropriate controlled cooling process should be taken due to the results of CCT (continuous cooling transformation) and TTT (time-temperature-transformation) to ensure both microstructure and mechanical properties. CCT curve of the newly developed steel shows that when accelerated cooling speed is higher than 5 °C/s, the intermediate transformation products can be formed. The TTT curve displays that the intermediate transformation temperature ranges from 600 to 530 °C. Yield strength of the newly developed steels reaches 500 MPa, and their elongation and toughness are excellent.

Influence of Plastic Deformation on Thermal Stability of Low Carbon Bainitic Steel

Bainite is metastable due to its high dislocation density, and consequently bainitic steel structures have the problem of thermal stability. Plastic deformation of bainite can further increase dislocation density and change dislocation configuration at the same time. The influence of plastic deformation on thermal stability of low carbon bainitic steel during isothermal holding at 650 °C was investigated with hardness analysis, in-situ tracing metallographic analysis and transmission electron microscopy. Bainite in the low carbon steel evolves into polygonal ferrite via recovery and recrystallization during isothermal holding at 650 °C. There is a considerably long period (about 20 h) between end of recovery and commencement of recrystallization of undeformed bainite, in which the hardness of the sample maintains a constant value slightly lower than that before reheating. Slight plastic deformation of bainite induces rearrangement of pre-existing dislocations and forming of low-energy dislocation cells inside bainite laths, which has little influence on thermal stability of bainite, whereas heavy plastic deformation results in obvious dislocation multiplication and accelerates recrystallization of bainite. Recrystallization of heavily-deformed bainite occurs preferentially at prior austenite grains boundaries. The samples subjected to heavy torsion exhibit obviously higher thermal stability than the samples subjected to heavy compression despite their same initial hardness, which can be attributed to different influences of torsion and compression on dislocations and boundaries of bainite.

The Influence of Subgrain Size on the Bainite Refinement for Steels

The relaxation-precipitation-controlling phase transformation (RPC) technique after deformation at non-recrystallization zone to refine the intermediate transformation microstructure has been simulated on a Gleeble-1500 thermo-simulator. The optical microscope, SEMTEMPTA(particle tracking autoradiography) technique to reveal the boron distribution were employed to study the variation of austenite grain size and subgrain size, the features of microstructure after RPC, precipitation and the evolution of dislocation configuration during the relaxation and the boron distribution. The results show that after relaxation at non-recrystallization zone, the subgrain formed inside an original austenite grain. With the relaxation time increasing, the size of the subgrains increased and the misorientation also increased. During the cooling after the relaxation the boron can also segregate at the boundaries of subgrains and the boron segregation can reveal the subgrains forming in deformed austenite before phase transformation. It has been found that during the relaxation strain induced precipitates occurs and these precipitates can pin the subgrain boundary and make it more stable. Comparing the subgrain size demonstrated by PTA with the optical microstructure a conclusion can be drawn that the packet of bainite generally cannot break through the boundaries of subgrains, so the subgrain appearing at the relaxation stage can confine the growth of the microstructure during the transformation in succeeding and the final bainite is refined.

Preparation and radar-absorbing properties of Al2O3/TiO2/Fe2O3/Yb2O3 composite powder

Al2O3/TiO2/Fe2O3/Yb2O3 composite powder was synthesized via the sol–gel method. The structure, morphology, and radar-absorption properties of the composite powder were characterized by transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction analysis and RF impedance analysis. The results show that two types of particles exist in the composite powder. One is irregular flakes (100–200 nm) and the other is spherical Al2O3 particles (smaller than 80 nm). Electromagnetic wave attenuation is mostly achieved by dielectric loss. The maximum value of the dissipation factor reaches 0.76 (at 15.68 GHz) in the frequency range of 2–18 GHz. The electromagnetic absorption of waves covers 2–18 GHz with the matching thicknesses of 1.5–4.5 mm. The absorption peak shifts to the lower-frequency area with increasing matching thickness. The effective absorption band covers the frequency range of 2.16–9.76 GHz, and the maximum absorption peak reaches −20.18 dB with a matching thickness of 3.5 mm at a frequency of 3.52 GHz.

Study on the preparation of Pt nanocapsules

Ag@Pt core-shell nanoparticles (Ag@Pt NPs) were prepared by a co-reduction method. Pt nanocapsules with diameters of less than 10 nm were obtained by an electrochemical method. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) scanning was used to cavitate the Ag@Pt NPs, and the morphology, structure, and cavitation conditions were studied. The results indicate that the effective cavitation conditions to obtain Pt nanoparticles from Ag@Pt NPs are a scanning voltage of 0 to 0.8 V and continuous CV scanning over 2 h. This cavitation method is also applicable for the syntheses of Ir, Ru, and Ru–Pt nanocapsules.