Hot-Compression Deformation Constitutive Equation of 60Si2CrVAT High-Strength Spring Steel

The hot compression deformation of 60Si2CrVAT high-strength spring steel was carried out on thermo-simulation machine at different temperatures (900,950,1 050,1 150℃) and strain rates of 0.1-10 s^-1, the influences of deformation temperature and strain rate on hot deformation behavior of the steel were investigated. The hot-compression deformation constitutive equation of 60Si2CrVAT spring steel was established based on hyperbolic sine equations of Arrhenius type. The results show that the flow stress of the spring steel increased with the increase of deformation rate and decreased with the increase of deformation temperature, it was found that dynamic recrystallization was more likely to occur at high deformation temperature and low strain rate. And the activation energy was calculated to be 372 kJ ·mol^-1 when true strain was 0.2, the calculated flow stress well agreed with the experimental results and the average relative error between them was 4.89%.