Welding base metal for recycling railway wheel and method for recycling railway wheel using the same

    公开(公告)号:US12104220B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-01

    申请号:US18120222

    申请日:2023-03-10

    发明人: Young Jin Lee

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to a welding base metal for recycling a railway wheel and a method for recycling a railway wheel using the same, which can overlay-weld a railway wheel with a welding base metal suitable for overlay-welding a railway wheel through a heat treatment, form a surface hardened layer, and strengthen the metal structure of the railway wheel, in order to recycle the railway wheel.
    The welding base metal for recycling a railway wheel may be used as a surface hardened layer of a railway wheel because the welding base metal has high hardness while exhibiting a similar property to the railway wheel. Furthermore, the welding base metal can change the metal structure of the recycled railway wheel, and thus delay the initial wear time of the recycled railway wheel. The method for recycling a railway wheel may overlay-weld the damaged railway wheel to its original size, form a surface hardened layer, and change the metal structure of the railway wheel by changing the composition of the welding base metal and performing the pre-heat treatment and the post heat treatment, thereby minimizing the occurrence of damage to the recycled railway wheel.

    Method for optimizing microstructure of rail welded joint

    公开(公告)号:US11866801B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-09

    申请号:US17477073

    申请日:2021-09-16

    IPC分类号: C21D9/50 C21D8/00 C21D9/04

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of rails welding, and particularly to a method for optimizing microstructure of a rail welded joint, the method comprises the following steps: step 1): subjecting a rail web area of a to-be-cooled welded joint which is obtained by flash butt welding to an accelerated cooling by means of an accelerated cooling device and by using compressed air as a cooling medium, measuring and monitoring temperature of a central position of the rail web of the welded joint while cooling; step 2): stopping the accelerated cooling when the temperature of the central position of the rail web drops to a preset temperature, then placing the welded joint in air and naturally cooling to room temperature, wherein the rail is a pearlite rail having a carbon content of 0.6-0.9 wt %.

    MULTI-THICKNESS WELDED VEHICLE STRUCTURE
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230183831A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-15

    申请号:US17801019

    申请日:2021-02-24

    申请人: Multimatic Inc.

    发明人: Mark Sullivan

    摘要: A process for preparing a multi-thickness welded steel vehicle rail, the process comprises the steps of: (a) forming a first tube having a first outer diameter, an inner diameter and a first wall thickness; (b) forming a second tube having the first outer diameter, a second inner diameter and a second wall thickness different than the first wall thickness; (c) swaging a first end of the first tube to a second outer diameter less than the second inner diameter of the second tube; (d) inserting the swaged first end of the first tube into an end of the second tube to form a joint; (e) welding the first tube and the second tube together to form a weld at the joint to form a tube blank with a heat affected zone of lower metal strength in the area of the weld; (f) preheating the tube blank to create a common crystalline microstructure along a length of the tube blank; (g) introducing the tube blank into a blow molding tool having inner molding walls; (h) molding the tube blank at an elevated temperature by expanding the tube blank against the inner molding walls of the molding tool by injecting a pressurized medium into an interior cavity of the tube blank; and (i) quenching the tube blank by replacing the pressurized medium with a cooling medium through the molding tool and the tube blank to achieve a rapid cooling effect on the tube blank and to create a completed vehicle rail with essentially uniform material strength across the weld. A completed vehicle rail has an overlapped welded structure and uniform microcrystalline structure along the length of the rail.