Regularities of structure formation during hot deformation of austenite in alloy steels

Regularities of substructure formation during hot working of austenite in 110Kh6 and 40Kh8G8 alloy steels, structural peculiarities and relations between structure development and a hot deformation curve were investigated. The possibility of structure formation modeling is also evaluated for deformation under commercial procedure conditions. Hot deformation during high temperatue thermomechanical treatment was carried out by rolling and compression. It is found that in alloy steel austenite during hot deformation up to 7-10% the processes of intensive strain hardening develop which result in formation of substructure with high density of dislocations either distributed uniformly or forming a cellular type substructure. Strain softening processes (dynamic polygonization) arise with a deformation degree increase. The relationship found between a hot deformation curve and structural changes during hot working of alloy steel austenite provides the option for conditions of high temperature thermomechanical treatment of commerical alloy steels softening according to a dynamic polygonization mechanism