Abrasive wear behavior of cryogenically treated boron steel (30MnCrB4) used for rotavator blades

Tejinder Pal Singh; Anil Kumar Singla; Jagtar Singh; Kulwant Singh; Munish Kumar Gupta; Hansong Ji; Qinghua Song; Zhanqiang Liu; Catalin I. Pruncu

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Abrasive wear behavior of cryogenically treated boron steel (30MnCrB4) used for rotavator blades

Tejinder Pal Singh
, Anil Kumar Singla
, Jagtar Singh
, Kulwant Singh
, Munish Kumar Gupta
, Hansong Ji
, Qinghua Song
, Zhanqiang Liu
, Catalin I. Pruncu^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology
Shandong University
University of Birmingham
Imperial College London

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Rotavator blades are prone to significant wear because of the abrasive nature of sand particles. The aim of this research work is to investigate the effect of cryogenic treatment and post tempering on abrasive wear behavior, in the presence of angular quartz sand (grain size of 212-425 μm), of rotavator blade material of boron steel (30MnCrB4). Cryogenic treatment has caused an improvement in the abrasive wear resistance and microhardness of 30MnCrB4 by 60% and 260.73%, respectively, compared to untreated material due to enhancement in hardness, the conversion of retained austenite into martensite, and the precipitation of secondary carbides in boron steel after exposure to cryogenic temperature. Economic analysis justifies the additional cost of cryogenic treatment.

Original language	English
Article number	436
Journal	Materials
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13020436
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Abrasive wear
Austenitization
Cryogenic
Microhardness
Microstructure
Tempering

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