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Non Heat-Treated Vanadium Alloyed Steel Crankshaft

Paper #:
 820125
Published:
 1982-02-01
DOI:
 10.4271/820125
Citation:
Hashimoto, H., Serino, Y., Aoyama, Y., and Hashimoto, K., "Non Heat-Treated Vanadium Alloyed Steel
Crankshaft," SAE Technical Paper 820125, 1982, doi:10.4271/820125.
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Author(s):
 Hiroo Hashimoto
 Yoichi Serino
 Yoshimi Aoyama
 Kametaro Hashimoto
Affiliated:
 Toyota Motor Co., Ltd.
 Takaoka Industrial Co., Ltd.
Pages:
10
Abstract:
Steel crankshaft is ordinally quench-tempered at forged state, and high frequency induction hardening
is performed on it after machining. Authors have developed vanadium alloyed steel crankshaft which
requires only air cooling after hot forging instead of the quench-tempering and the induction
hardening. The air cooled vanadium alloyed steel had sufficient mechanical properties and wear
resistance for crankshafts by precipitation of vanadium carbide or carbo-nitride at cooling process
after forging. The difference of air cooled vanadium alloyed steel crankshaft hardness depended on the
chemical composition and mass effect, and was satisfactorily small. The following effects were
obtained by eliminating the heat-treatment process: 1) Energy savings 2) Decreased process time 3)
Decreased distortion 4) Machinability improvement 5) Reduction of total cost