A Computational and Experimental Analysis of Quenching stress and Distortions in Hypoeutectoid and Eutectoid Steels

This paper deals with a computational and experimental analysis of the quenching process of plain hypoeutectoid and eutectoid steels, taking into account thermal stress, diffusive and diffusionless phase transformations. A finite element scheme has been used to solve the considered initial and boundary value problems. Two different bilinear hardening model, the isotropic and the kinematic hardening model, have been used and compared. Numerical results have been compared with experimental and reference data, showing a good agreement between theory and experiments.