The investigation of the deformation wave hardening effect on the strength of the medium and low alloy steels

The article presents the data on the effect of wave deformation hardening on the strength of the 45, 40X and 35 HGSA steel. To improve the strength of these steels, it is proposed to create structured areas consisting of alternating solid and viscous-plastic sections in their surface layer. The evenness of arrangement of the sections is characterized by the overlap factor. The studies found that wave deformation treatment of the samples, made of the 45, 40X 35HGSA steel, made it possible to increase the tensile strength by 8, 4.2 and 13%, the values of elastic deformations – by 37, 81 and 51% during their hardening with overlapping coefficients 0.7; 0.9 and 0.7, respectively. (paper)