The Role of Chemical Composition of High-Manganese Cast Steels on Wear of Excavating Chain in Railway Shoulder Bed Ballast Cleaning Machine

Author:

Krawczyk JanuszORCID,Bembenek MichałORCID,Pawlik Jan

Abstract

The main task for a ballast bed is to transmit the sleeper pressure in a form of stress cone to the subsoil, provide proper drainage and resist the sleeper displacement. Poorly maintained ballast could severely limit the maximum speed capacity and create further problems with the structural integrity, possibly leading to a complete failure of a given rail line. To prevent the unwanted corollaries, the ballast bed has to be periodically cleaned with an appropriate machinery. In this paper the authors investigated the effect of the chemical composition on the physical properties of the ballast excavating chains made of high-manganese steels. The authors focused on the wear mechanism, work hardening ability and hardness in the cross-sections areas. A microstructure analysis was performed as well, and observations revealed divergent morphology of precipitations at the grain boundaries, which influenced the size of austenite grains. The deformation twins formed as a result of operation were noticed in the samples. Research has shown that less carbon and chromium reduces the hardness of cast steel, and it specifically affects the ability to strain hardening. The authors explained the role of adjustments in chemical composition in the operational properties of high-manganese cast steels. It has been shown in the paper that different chemical compositions affect the properties of the alloys, and this causes different types of wear. The high content of chromium increases the hardness of materials before and after plastic deformation hardening, which in the conditions of selector chains results in greater dimensional stability during wear of holes in pin joints and will be more susceptible to abrasive wear in the presence of dusts from the ballast than creep.

Funder

IDUB AGH UST, AGH UST

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Materials Science

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