Roberto Gonzalez

• Universidad Panamericana Sede México

Protection of conventional steel parts in equipment that must withstand wear of the tribo-corrosion type (combination of heat and an aqueous medium) can be achieved by High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) techniques, applying carbide-based cermet layers which decrease tribological and corrosion mechanisms. Three different carbide layers were applied to a...

Quantitative microstructural measurements of constituents of an Al-Si-Cu alloy, used to manufacture a part with thin sections by Pressure Die Casting (PDC), do not correspond to phase diagram calculations. A simulation of the liquid velocity when filling the mold was made in order to understand the relation between this parameter and pressure, cool...

The use of Cu and Ti in Zn alloys improves mechanical properties as solid solution and dispersoid particles (grain refiners) may harden the material and reduce creep deformation. This is one of the main design problems for parts made with Zn alloys, even at room temperature. In this work the mechanical behavior of a Zn-Cu-Ti low alloy is presented...

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Dual-phase (DP) steels are an excellent alternative in the production of automotive parts that require high mechanical resistance, high impact strength and elevated elongation. These materials are produced using low alloy steels as a basis, reducing costs and resulting in a combination of martensite and ferrite structures with ultrafine grain size....

The microstructure of Pressure Die Casting of an Al-8.5 Si-3.5 Cu alloy used for clean room tiles shows amount of constituents (eutectic and Si phases) that do not correspond to the ones indicated by the phase diagram. Furthermore, there are differences in amount of constituents between the core and the surface zones of parts produced by this proce...

During melting, reduction or thermal treatment of a steel charge, the input of energy (either chemical or electrical) is indispensable to guarantee the viability of the process. Under these circumstances, it will be reasonable to design the furnace lining in such a way that heat loss through the walls is minimized. Nevertheless, it can be proved th...

Certain materials can show superplasticity when traction tested at temperatures higher than 50% of their melting point and with low strain rates ( $ \dot{\varepsilon } $ ε · < 10−2 s−1), showing very high elongations (>100%) without localized necking and mainly intergranular fractures. This behavior requires that the starting grain size is smal...

Steels with ultrafine grains (lower than 5 μm), which usually known as ultrafine ferrite or ultrafine grained materials, are presently the object of intense research, because of the improvement in resistance and fracture toughness they may reach compared to conventional steels (with grain sizes above this value). It is shown that the forenamed stee...

A construction steel (shipbuilding strip) obtained by Advanced Thermomechanical Controlled Rolling Processes presents a room temperature banded ferrite-pearlite microstructure, and when superplastically deformed at 800°C with a strain rate of 5.85×10-5 s-1, the bands disappear as there is grain boundary sliding and grain cluster rotation. Neverthel...

Steels with ultrafine grained structure may present superplastic behavior at specific temperatures and strain rates that allow the grain boundary sliding mechanisms to be activated. The work presents high temperature tension tests in a low carbon, low alloy steel obtained by advanced thermomechanical controlled rolling processes, showing at 800°C e...

of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, July 29 – August 2, 2012.

In modern steelmaking the duration of a working campaign for a blast furnace is related to the life of the crucible. Adding titanium oxide has been a frequent practice in the operation routines for modern blast furnaces, seeking the protection of the crucible walls, independently from its physical or chemical characteristics. These practices, as co...

Double-phase steels are an excellent alternative in the production of automotive parts that require high mechanical resistance, high impact strength and elevated elongation. These materials are produced using low-alloy steels as a basis, reducing costs and resulting in a combination of martensite and ferrite structures with ultrafine grain sizes. T...

The presence of thermocouples in the lining of crucibles has become a general practice in the new construction of blast furnaces. The Nodal Wear Model (NWM) has also emerged as an instrument that, while using experimental data, obtains nodal variables whose experimental measurement is not possible: global coefficient of pig-iron/refractory heat tra...

The industrial level production of ultrafine grained (or ultrafine ferrite) ferrous alloys was investigated through three examples of steels that complied with the EN 10149-2 Euronorm and were produced by advanced controlled hot rolling techniques. The steel samples were tension tested and chemically analyzed, and the microstructure was evaluated t...

The use of stainless steel at very high temperatures requires a detailed study of stress-strain and microstructure relationships. The tests made with a 304 type stainless steel are presented in order to study tensile properties at both 700 and 850oC, as well as microstructure characteristic such as austenite grain size (predominant phase in this st...

The effect of different heat treatments is evaluated on SAE 8620 low-carbon alloyed steel by means of drilling tests. Improving machinability through prior heat treatment in steels used for nitro-carburizing surface treatments is very important in the manufacturing of large series of parts, due to its impact in production costs. This is the case fo...

En este trabajo se describe un modelo bidimensional basado en el método del elemento finito para calcular la distribución de temperaturas en un carro torpedo lleno de arrabio. El modelo determina los gradientes térmicos en condiciones estacionarias y transitorias dentro de las partes que constituyen el sistema considerado, como son cubierta de acer...

Criterions developed for the Nodal Wear Model (NWM) were applied to estimate the shape of the corrosion profiles that a blast furnace hearth may acquire during its campaign. Taking into account design of the hearth, the boundary conditions, the characteristics of the refractory materials used and the operation conditions of the blast furnace, simul...

Temperature distribution in the crucible of a blast furnace is an important operation variable that is a function of the materials used in its construction, temperatures reached in the pig iron-refractory interface, and cooling-system performance. Defining the crucible zones where high shear and tensile stresses are reached is an important step in...

A thermic penetration model is used to calculate wear of the refractory lining of a blast furnace crucible.

El desgaste de materiales en el horno alto puede realizarse bajo la consideración de mecanismos estrictamente abrasivos o con el predominio de las componentes químicas y erosivas resultantes de la circulación de fluidos sobre el refractario. No obstante, aunque en determinadas situaciones, la abrasión o las componentes químicas pueden resultar los...

Several metallic alloys, based on different combinations of iron, nickel, titanium and aluminium, have been successfully used as binders for the fabrication of new TiB2 cermets by hot isostatic pressing. The formation of extremely brittle secondary phases, products of the chemical reactions between TiB2 and these metallic phases during sintering, h...