Prediction of 42CrMo steel flow stress at high temperature and strain rate

The compressive deformation behavior of 42CrMo steel was investigated at temperatures ranging from 850 to 1150 °C and strain rates from 0.01 to 50 s⁻¹ on Gleeble-1500 thermo-simulation machine. Based on the classical stress–dislocation relation and the kinematics of the dynamic recrystallization, the flow stress constitutive equations of the work hardening-dynamical recovery period and dynamical recrystallization period were established for 42CrMo steel, respectively. The stress–strain curves of 42CrMo steel predicted by the established models are in good agreement with experimental results when the strain rate is relatively low. So, the proposed deformation constitutive equations can be used to establish the hot formation processing parameters for 42CrMo steel.