The static recrystallization behavior of low-alloy steel Q345B during double-pass hot compression deformation tests was investigated in the temperature range of 900-1000 ℃,the true strain range of 0.15-0.25 and the interpass time range of 0.5-50 s on Gleeble-3500 thermo-simulation machine.The results show that static recrystallization during the interpass time is observed.As the deformation temperature and strain increase,softening caused by static recrystallization is obvious.According to the analysis and calculation of thermo-simulation data,the static recrystallization activation energy was obtained and static recrystallization kinetics model was built.Finally,the error analysis of static recrystallization kinetics model proved that the model had good accuracy.Therefore,this model provides a theoretical basis for static recrystallization（SRX）and will contribute to the development of multipass hot rolling process,in order to control the rolling process more accurately.
Based on the steady-state strain measured by single-pass hot compression tests,the method by a double-pass hot compression testing was developed to measure the metadynamic-recrystallization kinetics.The metadynamic recrystallization behavior of low-alloy steel Q345B during hot compression deformation was investigated in the temperature range of 1 000-1 100℃,the strain rate range of 0.01-0.10 s -1 and the interpass time range of 0.5-50 s on a Gleeble-3500 thermo-simulation machine.The results show that metadynamic recrystallization during the interpass time can be observed.As the deformation temperature and strain rate increase,softening caused by metadynamic recrystallization is obvious.According to the data of thermo-simulation,the metadynamic recrystallization activation energy is obtained to be Qmd=100.674 kJ/mol and metadynamic recrystallization kinetics model is set up.Finally,the error analysis of metadynamic recrystallization kinetics model proves that the model has high accuracy(correlation coefficient R=0.988 6).
According to the research on the deformation resistance and the ferrite transformation behavior of X80 pipeline steel by using Gleeble 3500 thermal simulator, a mathematical model of the α-phase start transformation temperature for high-Nb pipeline steel was established, based on the transformation kinetics and thermodynamics. The influence of deformation and cooling rate as well as Nb content on the α-phase starting temperature was thor- oughly investigated. The results given by the model were in good agreement with the experimental results, which showed that the model could predict the α-phase starting temperature for high Nb pipeline steel during cooling process.
