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The article presents data on the static tensile tests and dynamic impact-toughness tests of a highchromium martensitic 10Kh9V1M1FBR steel (0.12 wt % C, 9.8 wt % Cr, 0.93 wt % W, 1.01 wt % Mo, 0.2 wt % V, 0.05 wt % Nb, 0.05 wt % N, 0.003 wt % B, 0.36 wt % Mn, 0.2 wt % Ni, 0.06 wt % Si, 0.01 wt % P, 0.008 wt % S, 0.02 wt % Cu, 0.1 wt % Co, 0.015 wt % Al, and the remainder is Fe) in the temperature range from 20 to–196°C. In the case of static loading, a reduction in the temperature leads to an increase in the strength characteristics; upon a drop in the temperature from 20 to–100°C, the plasticity also increases. This is connected with the fact that the ductile fracture remains the basic mechanism down to cryogenic temperatures. The brittle–ductile transition related to the transition from ductile intragranular fracture to quasibrittle one is observed at–45°C. The steel exhibits high impact toughness to the temperature of–60°C (KCV –60 = 95 J/cm2), at which the fraction of the ductile component in fracture is equal to 20%. At 80°C, the impact toughness decreases down to critical values (30 J/cm2), which correlates with the decrease in the fraction of the ductile component on the fracture surface down to 1%. The further decrease in the impact toughness down to 10 J/cm2 at–196°C is related to the transition from intragranular to intergranular brittle fracture.
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Original Russian Text © M.V. Odnobokova, A.Yu. Kipelova, A.N. Belyakov, R.O. Kaibyshev, 2016, published in Fizika Metallov i Metallovedenie, 2016, Vol. 117, No. 4, pp. 404–413.
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Odnobokova, M.V., Kipelova, A.Y., Belyakov, A.N. et al. Mechanical behavior and brittle–ductile transition of high-chromium martensitic steel. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 117, 390–398 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X16040098
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