Abstract
Titanium addition to vanadium microalloyed forging steels is one of the ways proposed to improve fracture toughness. Fine TiN particles inhibit austenite grain growth after recrystallization at the high temperatures used to forge these steels. TiN particles, however, can be formed in the liquid, and as their sizes exceed one micron, they could act as cleavage nucleation sites, impairing the fracture toughness. The present work reports fracture toughness results obtained in Ti treated microalloyed forging steels, showing that in coarse microstructures cleavage is nucleated in coarse TiN particles, but that after refining the microstructure, voids originate at the same particles, resulting in ductile rupture.
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