Spheroidization annealing of steel tube in heat treatment process
Spheroidizing annealing is a heat treatment process for spheroidizing carbides in steel to obtain granular pearlite. Process: Heating to 20 ~ 30 ℃ above Ac1, the holding time should not be too long, generally 2 ~ 4h is suitable, and the cooling method is usually furnace cooling, or a long time isothermal at about 20 ℃ below Ar1. It is mainly used for eutectoid steel and hypereutectoid steel, such as carbon tool steel, alloy tool steel, bearing steel, etc. The microstructure of hypereutectoid steel after rolling and forging is lamellar pearlite and reticulated cementite. This structure is hard and brittle, not only difficult to cut, but also easy to deform and crack in the subsequent quenching process. . Spheroidized annealing results in spherical pearlite. In spherical pearlite, fine cementite particles are spherical and dispersed on the ferrite substrate. Compared with lamellar pearlite, spherical pearlite is not only harder and easier to c...