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Study on Wear Properties of J11 Wheel Steel with Nonuniform Microstructure

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In actual wheel–rail systems, a nonuniform microstructure of the wheel and rail materials is a serious problem. A double-disk rolling wear test device was used to study the influence of the nonuniform microstructure on the wear properties of wheel materials in the present study. The results show that the microstructure of the sample 1 includes proeutectoid ferrite, pearlite, and upper bainite, which is a nonuniform microstructure. By contrast, the microstructure of sample 2 contains only proeutectoid ferrite and pearlite. During wear tests, with the increasing number of test cycles, the weight loss of the sample 1 is consistently larger than that of the sample 2. A similar trend is observed with respect to deformation of the plastic layer. For the sample 1, fatigue cracks mainly propagate along the interface between the upper bainite and pearlite, leading to rapid wear failure; the main wear mechanism changes from spalling to fatigue with the increasing number of cycles. For the sample 2, the main wear mechanism changes from adhesive wear to fatigue wear with increasing number of cycles.

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This work was supported by the development project of China railway (Grant Nos. J2019J004) and the China Academy of Railway Sciences Corporation Limited within the major issues of the fund (No. 2019YJ093, 2019YJ097, 2019YJ101).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian, 116028, People’s Republic of China

    Guan-Zhen Zhang, Chun-Peng Liu & Rui-Ming Ren

  2. Metals and Chemistry Research Institute, China Academy of Railway Sciences Corporation Limited, Bei**g, 100081, People’s Republic of China

    Guan-Zhen Zhang & Heng Zhang

  3. Key Laboratory of Critical Materials of Rail Transportation in Liaoning Province, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian, 116028, China

    Rui-Ming Ren

  4. Collaborative Innovation Center of Steel Technology, University of Science and Technology Bei**g, Bei**g, 100083, People’s Republic of China

    Qian Li

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Zhang, GZ., Liu, CP., Zhang, H. et al. Study on Wear Properties of J11 Wheel Steel with Nonuniform Microstructure. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 29, 7420–7427 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-020-05183-0

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