Abstract

Despite the rapid development of metallurgical processes for the production of semi-finished products aimed at improving the modes of smelting, casting and crystallization, a significant improvement in the properties of any cast metal, ensuring its wide application in modern mechanical engineering, is achieved by combined thermomechanical processing of workpieces, combining hot metal forming and heat treatment. The technologies and equipment currently used in Kazakhstan by machine-building manufacturers have long been obsolete and ineffective. A common problem for everyone is the high energy intensity of production, its low productivity and the quality of forgings and blanks produced, which leaves much to be desired. Namely forgings and blanks are the starting materials for the manufacture of highquality tools and technological equipment at mining and metallurgical engineering enterprises. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to develop rational modes of thermal and thermochemical processing of 5KHV2S steel, previously forged in a tool that implements alternating strain in metal, as well as to study the influence of combined thermomechanical processing modes on the mechanical properties of this steel. The studies carried out in this work on the hardness of 5KHV2S steel samples subjected to combined thermomechanical processing showed that the developed technologies contributed to an increase in both total and surface hardness compared with samples not subjected to preforging in a new forging tool that implements alternating strain in the metal.