The heat treatment processes of bulldozer track rollers can significantly enhance their performance across multiple aspects, primarily including the following areas:

  1. Increased Hardness and Wear Resistance: Appropriate heat treatments, such as quenching and tempering, can significantly improve the hardness of track rollers. For instance, isothermal quenching treatment increases the hardness of ADI materials, thereby enhancing their wear resistance and abrasion performance. Additionally, optimized heat treatment processes can also reduce the crack propagation rate, further improving the material's wear resistance.

  2. Improved Fatigue Life: Heat treatment can alter the microstructure of the material, affecting its fatigue performance. Research has shown that selecting appropriate materials and heat treatment processes, such as carburizing and ion nitriding, can significantly enhance the bending fatigue life of gears. Similarly, for track rollers, adjusting heat treatment parameters, such as quenching temperature and cooling methods, can optimize their fatigue performance.

  3. Enhanced Dimensional Stability: Heat treatment can also help improve the dimensional stability of components and reduce deformation. For example, using induction heating and pre-allocated deformation techniques can effectively control quenching distortion in key-slot components on bulldozers.

  4. Increased Impact Resistance: Proper heat treatment can enhance the toughness of materials, thereby improving their impact resistance. For instance, by adjusting the quenching and tempering temperatures, the impact toughness of ZG35Cr2SiMnMo steel can be optimized, making it more suitable for heavy-load working conditions.

  5. Optimized Comprehensive Mechanical Properties: Heat treatment not only influences individual performance indicators but can also optimize the overall mechanical properties of materials by improving the microstructural organization. For instance, employing isothermal quenching and other heat treatment methods can achieve a balance of high strength, high toughness, excellent wear resistance, and low-temperature performance.

In summary, the heat treatment processes for bulldozer track rollers are key technical means to enhance their overall performance. By precisely controlling the heat treatment parameters, the hardness, wear resistance, fatigue life, dimensional stability, and impact resistance can be significantly improved, thereby extending their service life and enhancing operational efficiency.