Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Rhee, Hongjoo

Committee Member

Oppedal, Andrew

Committee Member

Doude, Haley

Committee Member

Whittington, Wilburn

Date of Degree

5-4-2018

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Mechanical Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science (M.S.)

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

Modified rolled homogeneous armor (RHA) steels were designed and produced to characterize the effects of niobium additions and accompanying heat treatments on microstructure and mechanical properties. This study combines in-house steel production and property analysis to advance the understanding of niobium on enhanced hardenability and weldability in a chemistry-process-structure-property relationship paradigm. For steel production, designed alloys were cast in a vacuum induction melting furnace and thermo-mechanically processed. Optimal heat treatment conditions were determined by utilizing a thermo-mechanics calculation software. Microstructures were investigated by optical and electron microscopy while hardenability was characterized by Jominy end-quench tests. Mechanical tests were performed at various stress states, strain rates, and temperatures to understand deformation behavior under complex loading conditions. Encouraging results in performance were observed in the micro-alloyed armor steels as compared to reference materials from earlier studies.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17384

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