Effect of vanadium on the high-cycle fatigue fracture properties of medium-carbon microalloyed steel for fracture splitting connecting rod

The present investigation effort was made to study the effect of V up to 0.45% on the high-cycle fatigue properties of medium-carbon microalloyed (MA) steel 37MnSiVS, for the development of new crackable MA forging steel with excellent fatigue properties. The results show that the amount of V(C,N) precipitates increases with increasing V content and most of the precipitates are less than 5 nm. Owing to the significant precipitation strengthening...