This work is focused on understanding the significant factors affecting fatigue strength of laser-welded butt joints in thin high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) steel. The effects weld profile, imperfections, hardness, and residual stresses were considered to explain results found S-N curves four welded series. showed acceptable although series presented multiple-imperfections. analysis behavior at ...

Solubility of mixed niobium-titanium carbonitrides in commercially relevant High-Strength Low-Alloy (HSLA) steel was investigated by combined use electrical resistivity measurements and APT after interrupted quenching from soaking temperatures between 950 1250 °C. Increasing the bulk material towards higher proportional to nominal niobium addition which varied 0.002 0.022–0.043–0.085 wt.-%. Cor...

The thermo-mechanical control processing (TMCP) of low carbon (C) Nb-Ti-containing HSLA steel with different cooling rates from 5 to 20 ◦C/s was simulated using a Gleeble 3500 system. The samples’ microstructure was characterized and the tensile properties measured. The results show that a microstructure mainly consisting of quasi-polygonal ferrite (QPF), granular bainitic ferrite (GBF), and ma...

Steel has remained the most crucial of all structural materials. However, the steel production processes have changed over the years. Currently, due to the tendency of eliminating high energy consuming technologies, in both the international and domestic steel industry, liquid steel is manufactured in two basic aggregates: oxygen-blown converters and electric arc furnaces 1 . The development of...

We report on the first encapsulated rotary ball bearing mechanism using silicon microfabrication and stainless steel balls. The method of capturing stainless steel balls within a silicon race to support a silicon rotor both axially and radially is developed for rotary micro machines and MEMS ball bearing tribology studies. Initial demonstrations show speeds up to 6.8 krpm without lubrication, w...

Based on tests on six L-shaped RC columns with 500 MPa steel bars, the effect of axial compression ratios and stirrup spacing on failure mode, bearing capacity, displacement, and curvature ductility of the specimens is investigated. Test results show that specimens with lower axial load and large stirrup characteristic value (larger than about 0.35) are better at ductility and seismic performan...

Zn-Al-Mg coatings are important materials for the corrosion protection of steel sheets. However, susceptibility towards cracking limits formability performance these coatings. In this study, we focus on effect underlying substrate behavior in order to elucidate this, a high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) and an interstitial-free (IF) coated with two different ZnAlMg without binary eutectic microstru...