Hardness Uniformity in AISI 4140 Using Spray Quenching Method
Mochamad Achyarsyah$^{1}$, Poppy Puspitasari$^{2,3}$
$^{1}$Bandung Polytechnic of Manufacturing, Foundry Department, 21 Kanayakan Str., ID-40135 Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
$^{2}$State University of Malang, Mechanical Engineering Department, 5 Semarang Str., ID-65145 Malang, East Java, Indonesia
$^{3}$State University of Malang, Centre of Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy, 5 Semarang Str., ID-65145 Malang, East Java, Indonesia
Received: 15.03.2019. Download: PDF
Bucket teeth are a part of the coal process circuit in bucket excavator machine. It is used to dredge the overburden or a piece of the land that covers coal piles. Bandung Polytechnic of Manufacturing produces the product with AISI 4140 steel. The problem with batch production is that it has a wide variety of hardness as the result of using a quenching by blower. Therefore, there needs an alternative to a thinner hardness of bucket teeth. This research explores the possibility of using spray quenching method. The method uses the spray to quench the samples on the rotated concrete steel shelf evenly. The Shore scleroscope hardness test performs three times on the products at two points: the tip and 80 mm from the tip. The results are averaged later on. They show that spray quenching produced a thinner hardness variety compared to the blower product. Product using blower has the hardness of 25.16 $HRB$ at point 1 and 15.66 $HRB$ at point 2. Product with the first spray quenching has the hardness of 15.1 $HRB$ at point 1 and 11.56 $HRB$ at point 2, and after the second spray quenching became 7.3 $HRB$ at point 1 and 8.4 $HRB$ at point 2. Thus, spray quenching provides a more uniform hardness along the teeth and can be a substitute for the traditional quenching method.
Key words: spray quench, blower quench, hardness, product batch.
URL: http://mfint.imp.kiev.ua/en/abstract/v42/i03/0401.html
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/mfint.42.03.0401
PACS: 61.66.Dk, 62.20.Qp, 81.40.Cd, 81.40.Ef, 81.65.-b, 81.70.Bt
Citation: Mochamad Achyarsyah and Poppy Puspitasari, Hardness Uniformity in AISI 4140 Using Spray Quenching Method, Metallofiz. Noveishie Tekhnol., 42, No. 3: 401—414 (2020)