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The Material, Manufacturing and Computer

Simulation of the Quenching Process of a
Japanese Blade

Tatsuo Inoue

Abstract

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Traditional methods of preparing a kind of steel called tamahagane used for the Japanese sword by tatara
system and procedure of making the sword are briefly introduced with the discussions from the viewpoint of

metallurgy and thermo-mechanical processing. Such traditional methods are also revealed to be consistent with
the modern science and technology. The quenching process applied to the final stage of the procedure is
focused to explain how the pattern of blade, the deformation and residual stresses are induced by the

computer simulation based on the theory of metallo-thermo-mechanics relevant to the coupled fields among
temperature, micro structural change and stress/strain.

1. Introduction

The Japanese sword originally used as fighting weapon is now one of typical traditional crafts with artistic

characteristics, and so many monographs have been published in English [1-6] as well as in Japanese. The
sword is also interesting from the viewpoint of modern science and technology [7-26] since the way of

manufacturing the sword is really consistent with the science as is same as other surviving traditional products.
Tawara, a professor of Japanese Sword Research Laboratory, the University of Tokyo, accomplished a
monumental work in the framework of metallurgy[10]. Tawara measured the distribution of carbon density,
precipitation and hardness in the cross section of the swords in relation with the pattern of blade and sori
representing the mode of deformation during quenching. Successive works were made by Bain [7],
Suzuki[11-12], Tsuwa[13], and others.

Very few works on the sword were made, however, from mechanical engineering aspect. Ishikawa[14-16]

discussed the mechanism of cutting objects from theory of cutting and the shape of the sword from dynamics,

and stress/deformation analysis after quenching by the finite element method was carried out by Fujiwara and
Hanabusa[17-18] and the present authors[19-26].

As is well known, the Japanese sword is normally made of a traditional Japanese steel made of iron sand,

called tamahagane[27-31], and manufactured by a special way, especially by folding the steel.In the first and
second parts of the paper, the process of preparing the steel and the way of making the sword are briefly
introduced.

One of the most attractive and important stage of manufacturing the sword applied to the end of the process
before grinding and polishing is quenching, which induces the characteristic deformation pattern of bending
called sori, and the formation of blade. The following parts treat some results of computer simulation of

interesting bent shape of the sword and pattern of the blade simulated by a developed code 'HEARTS'
[32-35].

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The code was accomplished based on the theory of metallo-thermo-mechanics[36-39] relevant to describing
the fundamental equations considering the coupling effect among microstructural change, temperature and
stress/strain, which have been applied to the simulation of heat treatment processes considering phase

transformation including quenching of the sword[19-26]. After discussing an paradoxical characteristics on

the heat transfer coefficient between heated steel covered by a kind of thermally insulated clay, called

yakibatsuchi, and water as the coolant, some results of simulation of a sword in the quenching process are
presented.

2. PREPARATION OF TRADITIONAL JAPANESE STEEL

Almost all Japanese swords with some exceptions are made of tamahagane steel, or noble steel, specially
prepared by the tatara system by use of iron sand, but not by normal ore as seen in the old painting.

Fig.1 Old painting of tatara system.

Steels distributed in Japan before Meiji renovation in 1868 were produced by this method, while modern

system of iron and steel making had been developed in Europe. The amount of yearly production in the time
was approximately 10,000 tons being equivalent to that of Great Britain40.
The steel was used not only for swords, but also for guns, cutting tools, nails for construction of old temples

and shrines, and other products necessary for ordinary life.Around the period, the tatara system was replaced
by the modern western system except for providing the steel to sword smiths.

The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan constructed an experimental system of Tatara in 27-28in
Sugaya, Shimane Prefecture, and accumulated interesting data of steel making technology.

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Due to the lack of the steel for the sword, the Japanese Sword Museum, Nippon Bijutsu Token Hozon

Kyokai, started to organize the tatara system in Torigami, Shimane Prefecture, under the cooperation with
Hitachi Metals, Ltd. in 1977, and provides the steel of 3-4 tons every year.

Iron sand with 2-5\% content of iron mined from Chugoku Mountains, which includes the best quality of iron

sand in Japan, concentrated to the degree of 60\% by magnets system, while the mineral dressing method by
gravity classification

in flowing river had been adopted, which is no more popular to prevent water pollution

problem. Such enriched iron sand (masa satetsu) contains 8\% of pure iron Fe and iron oxide Fe2O3 with
very small amount of impurity such as 0.026% phosphorus P and 0.002% sulfur S being injurious for carbon

steels. Chemical compositions are shown in Table 1. Here, alumina Al2O3 is so rare to be beneficial for low
temperature refinement to be stated later.

Table 1 An example of chemical composition of iron sand in virgin and enriched states.

The enriched iron sand is supplied alternatively to the furnace with charcoal by hands. Figure 2 illustrates the

cross sectional view of the furnace under operation with some drainage mechanism constructed to three meters
under the ground. Only a difference of the system from the classical one in Fig.1 is that electric motors are
used for intermittent air blowing instead of manpowered bellows.

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Fig.2 Cross sectional view of tatara furnace

Continuous burning is operated for 70h under the direction of a murage, or chief foreman. The temperature in
the furnace is around 1200-1500 deg C lower than the melting point of the steel, which follows that the
reduction process of the partly molten state is occurred between iron oxide Fe2O3 and silica SiO2

contained in the clay of furnace. During the process, the initial thickness of 200-400mm of the furnace is

reduced to 50-100mm. After taking out the slag from the bottom of the furnace followed by destroying the
furnace, a block of blister steel called kera in sponge state with dimension of 2.7m in length, 1m in width and
200-300mm in thickness and with 2-2.5ton containing steel of 1.5-1.8ton is obtained (see Fig.3), while

necessary amount of iron sand and charcoal are respectively 8 and 13tons. (It is amazing that the block costs
hundred thousand dollars, two hundred times much expensive of normal steel!)

Fig.3 Kera, a block of blister steel.

Steel produced on the both side of the block, where the enough deoxidization is completed by air supplied

from kirokan (special wooden pipes) is called tamahagane, or noble steel, which is spelled as mother of metal in

Japanese character. Other parts of the block with different chemical composition in Table 2 are also used for
the sword making.

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Table 2. Chemical composition of tamahagane, forged and core steels.

The chemical compositions of the best part of steel are 1.0-1.4% C, 0.02-0.03% P, 0.006% S, and 0.003-

0.004% Ti, being very rare of sulfur and phosphorus even compared with industrial carbon steel (see Table 2).

The steel is cooled by cold environment since the operation is carried out in mid-winter followed by shattering,
and distributed to about 300 professional and registered sword smiths in Japan.

3. MANUFACTURING OF JAPANESE SWORD

The pieces of the steel with different carbon contents are heated in the carburizing or decarburizing

environment, termed jigane-oroshi. This process is made in the furnace burnt by charcoal and ash of rice straws
with the blowing air sent by fuigo (blowers). Decarbonization occurs in the part closed to the blower, while
CO2 gas accelerates the sintering on the upper parts.

The successive process of making a sword is illustrated in Fig.4. The smith makes a flat plate with a handle

termed as tekoita, on which the small pieces of broken flat pieces are piled up covered by a special Japanese
paper dampened by water containing clay and rice straws to prevent oxidation on the surface of steel by

insulating air. It is known that SiO2 in the clay contributes to increase the impurities including in the slag.

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Fig.4 Process of manufacturing the Japanese sword.

Forging process is followed to obtain a block, where about ten to fifteen rounds folding called orikaeshi are
repeated to get laminated materials with approximately 1,000 (=2**10) to 30,000 (=2**15) layers. The

characteristic pattern of the laminated layers depending on the way of smiths is visible on the surface of the
sword, some of which are depicted in Fig.5.

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Fig.5 Laminated layers by orikaeshi forging.

Such bonding of each layers during orikaesi process is enhanced by the mechanism of so called mechanical

alloying, for which so clean surface of the layers are necessary. This is achieved by dispersing impurities such
as oxides and so on with sparks by hammering. The weight of the block decreases during the process to
approximately 700-100g in the final shape of the sword.

A bar of shingane (core steel) with low carbon content is wrapped by kawagane or hagane (skin steel) with high
carbon for which the tamahagane steel is normally used (see the cross sectional views in Fig.4). This process is
called tsukurikomi. After rough grinding by the smith himself, the sword is transferred to the final process of
yakiire (quenching), which is the main topics of numerical simulation in the following sections.

Before quenching, a kind of clay, yakiba-tsuchi, mixed by charcoal powder and so on is pasted on the surface
of the blade to control the heat transfer intensity to be discussed in Sec.6 as presented in Fig.6.

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Fig.6 Tsuchioki, pasting a kind of mixed clay on the blade.

Most interesting situation is that the pasted clay is thick on the ridge while thin on the blade part as illustrated
in Fig.7 . Finally the quenching operation of the sword heated up to 800-850 degC into water is carried out.
(The temperature of heated sword and cooling water depends on the school of smiths and the material
property as well as the dimension of the sword.)

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Fig.7 Pasted pattern of the thickness of yakiba-tsuchi

During the quenching process, a white hard part with martensite structure is induced near the blade, while

other shining part remains pearlite and ferrite structures. The border of the parts is called hamon as seen in
Fig.8.

Fig.8 Hamon, shape of border between quenched and unquenched parts.

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Here, wavy or zigzag pattern of the hamon is realized by cutting the clay by a spatulas. A computer simulation
how the hamon appears and how the stresses are induced will be treated in the following sections.

4. SUMMARY OF MEATALLO-THERMO-MECHANICS

In such cases of quenching of the Japanese sword, and other machine parts in general, incorporated with

phase transformation, fields of metallic structure, temperature and stress/deformation are coupled each other
as schematically illustrated in the diagram of Fig.9 [36-39].

Fig.9 Coupling effect among metallic structures, temperature and stress/deformation.

Each field is to be described by the coupled fundamental equations of kinetics of phase transformation, heat

conduction equation and constitutive equation combined with kinematic relation and equation of motion, which
are summarized in separate page (see separate page of

5. FRAMEWORK OF DEVELOPED CAE SYSTEM ''HEARTS''

Brief introduction of the developed CAE system 'HEARTS' is presented in this section to be used
for the simulation of the quenching process of the Japanese sword.

+++++ 5.1. Finite Element Scheme and Method of Numerical Calculation ++++
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Finite element scheme is applied to the fundamental equations developed above, and a new version 2.0 of
'HEARTS' [35] approximately with 35,000 steps consisted of 250 subroutines in several levels is

coded by FORTRAN 77. For three dimensional problem as well as two dimensional and axisymmetrical
problems (plane stress and strain problems including that of generalized plane strain for stress analysis),
which were available in the version 1.0. The 2-D and 3-D isoparametric elements with variable-numbernodes are selected from an element library.

A skyline scheme and modified or full Newton-Raphson method are employed to solve these nonlinear
equations in each time step. In order to treat unsteady heat conduction equation depending on time, a
numerical time integration scheme 'step-by-step time integration method' is introduced, while an
incremental method is used for deformation and stress analysis.

++++++++ 5.2. Architecture of 'HEARTS' ++++++++

The heat treatment simulation code ''HEARTS'' is utilized in the CAE circumstance as illustrated in

Fig.10 \ref{Architecture}, being combined with the solver, and pre/post processor such as PATRAN,
I-DEAS, or other popularly used processors, and the interface. The data necessary for the simulation
is generated by the pre-processor, is output in the form of intermediate file. The data in the file is

transferred into the data file for control and initial-boundary conditions as well as the file for the element
and node data, while the material data file is constructed separately.

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Fig. 10 System architecture of CAE system 'HEARTS'

The solver of ''HEARTS'' is divided mainly into four parts corresponding to the equations, and they
can be connected by the user's requirement what kind of solutions, coupled or uncoupled, to be solved.
The output of the numerical results calculated by the solver are transferred into the files for post-

treatment, list image and final results. The data for post-treatment is again stored in the intermediate file

through the interface to convert into the final data for post-processor, and several kinds of illustration are
available by the user's requirement.

6. IDENTIFICATION OF HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT

Before quenching the sword into water, the yakiba-tsuchi clay is pasted on the surface as shown in Fig.6
to control the cooling condition of the surface of the steel. Since the temperature distribution is to be

calculated in the body of the sword, it is necessary to identify the relative heat transfer coefficient on the
metal surface as the function of the thickness of the clay.

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Series of experiments based on Japan Industrial Standard, JIS-K2242, were made to measure the

cooling curve of a cylinder made of silver coated by the clay with different thickness. The reason of the
usage of a silver is that the material is not undergone any phase transformation during the heating and

cooling process. A thermocouple is mounted on the surface as shown in Fig.11. The cylinder is heated up
to 800 degC by a reflection type electric furnace, and cooled in the water.

Fig. 11 A silver rod mounting a thermocouple

Obtained cooling curves are demonstrated in Fig.12 as the parameter of thickness of the pasted clay[43].
It is so interesting that the curves for thick clay (t=0.7-0.8 and 0.75-0.9mm) show typical mode with

moderate cooling rate due to film boiling followed by severe cooling stage by nuclear boiling, the shape of
which are similar to the case without the clay. When the thickness is small (t=0.1-0.15 and 0.2-0.3mm), on

the other hand, no film boiling stage is observed, which means that the cylinder is cooled severely from the
beginning. This is also confirmed by the observation of bubble nucleation by video camera.

Fig. 12 Cooling curves on the surface of a silver rod depending on the thickness of pasted clay.

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Inverse calculation is carried out by perturbation method to identify the heat transfer coefficient on the

surface of the cylinder. Results are represented in Fig.13. It is paradoxes to be noted from this figure that
the coefficient in the case with thin clay gives higher value than without clay during 800-400 degC being
most important temperature range for quenching. This data will be employed as the boundary condition
when solving the coupled heat conduction equation.

Fig. 13 Temperature dependent heat transfer coefficient.

7. SIMULATED RESULTS OF QUENCHING PROCESS

7.1. A Sword Treated and the Condition of Simulation

The shape and dimension of the sword treated here is illustrated in Fig.14, which is a model of a classical
and famous sword termed Bizen-Osafune.

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Fig. 14. Shape and dimension of a sword treated.

Three dimensional finite element mesh division of the sword is represented in Fig.15, where the division is
made for a half part in the width direction due to symmetry. Figures 15(a) and (b) respectively denote the
whole region and the enlarged part near kissaki(tip).

(a)Global view.

(b)Near the tip.

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Fig. 15. Finit element mesh.

Total number of the elements is 828, and that of the nodes is 1230. This model is supposed to consist of
two regions, (see Fig.16(a)), core steel with 0.2\% carbon content and skin steel with 0.65%C to which

different material data are applied. To differentiate the relative heat transfer coefficient depending on

the thickness of the yakibatsuchi clay, the surface of the sword is divided into two parts shown in Fig.16(b)
with different value indicated in Fig.13.

Fig. 16 Division of the sword for two materials with different carbon content (a) and for two kinds of
surface area with different heat transfer coefficient (b).

The sword is uniformly heated up to 850 degC, at which temperature the whole region is changed into
austenitic structure, and the sword is quenched into the water of 40 degC.

7.2. Effect of Pasted Clay on the Formation of Quenched and Unquenched Border

To know the effect of the thickness of clay on the induced hamon (border between quenched and

unquenched regions), simulation of quenching under several different conditions were carried out. Red

parts of Fig.17 show the volume fractions of martensite after quenching for different way of pasted clay.

When the sword is quenched by pasting thick clay of 0.8mm, martensite hardly appear except for the part
near the blade (see Fig.17(a)), which follows that very thin hamon occurs. However, almost whole region

become martensite as seen in Fig.(b) when thin clay with 0.1mm thickness is pasted on the whole surface. If
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the clay is pasted thin on the blade side, and thick on other part, on the other hand, ideal distribution of
martensite is obtained by the simulation with hardened blade by martensite and with ductile main body by
pearlite as is so realistic as the normal sword. Hereafter, the simulation below is made with the pasted
yakibatsuchi clay of the final pattern.

Fig. 17 Martensite fraction corresponding to hamon, depending on the way of thickness of

pasted clay.

7.3. Variation of Temperature, Metallic Structures, and Associated Deformation

Figure 18 shows the temperature distribution of the sword with successive time from the

beginning of the quenching, and the mode of deformation is also depicted in the figure. The
part of blade near the edge with thin thickness shrinks due to thermal contraction by severe

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cooing, which leads to the bending to the downward termed as gyaku-sori or reverse bending at
t=1s as is shown in Fig.(b).

Fig.18 Successive deformation associated with temperature distribution.

When martensitic transformation starts to occur in that part, however, normal bending called sori to the

upper direction is observed due to the volumetric dilatation by martensite formation (see Fig.(c)). Gyaku-

sori again appears at t=3-4s, because of the pearlitic transformation in the part of ridge. In the successive
stage of cooling, hot ridge side shrinks gradually because of thermal contraction, and finally, the normal
bending can be obtained.

Thus simulated deformation gives the good agreement with the actual bending mode of sori. Such mode of
successive deformation due to martensitic and pearlitic transformation is shown in Fig.19.
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Fig. 19 Successive development of structures

7.4. Stress Distribution and Residual Stresses

Stress distribution in the longitudinal direction in the course of quenching is represented in Fig.20.

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Fig. 20 Longitudinal stress distribution and residual stresses.

The simulated residual stresses after complete cooling are compared with measured data by X-ray

diffraction technique on the lines along Hasaki (edge), Shinogi (side ridge) and Mune (ridge)(see Fig.14)
as shown in Fig.21.

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Fig. 21 Comparison of calculated residual stresses with experimental data.

It is also noted that the maximum stress near the top of the sword during quenching reaches the fracture
stress, which sometimes leads to cracking or breakage of the sword during the operation.

8. CONCLUDING REMARKS
Procedure of preparing the traditional Japanese steel, tamahagane, followed by the method of making the
Japanese sword is summarized in the first part of the paper from the scientific point of view. Theory of

metallo-thermo-mechanics relevant to the simulation of quenching processes and the brief introduction of
the finite element computer code 'HEARTS' are also stated.

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As an example of the application of the simulation of quenching processes, a Japanese sword is focussed,
and the change in temperature, metallic structure and stress/deformation are calculated. The results

reveal to represent such real situations. The discussion from the viewpoints of metallurgy and mechanics

are carried out in each section of preparing Japanese steel and manufacturing the sword, especially on the
effect of pasted clay.

In conclusion, the technology surviving for over thousand years is really consistent with the modern science
and technology.

Acknowledgements

The author wish to express his hearty acknowledgement to Prof. K. Ishikawa, Kanazawa Institute of

Technology, Mr. J. Nozaki, Metal Museum, Mr. T. Suzuki, Nippon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai, for
their providing instructive information on the science of Japanese sword. Cooperation to develop the

CAE system ''HEARTS'' and identify the heat transfer coefficient are made respectively by Mr. K.
Arimoto, CRC Research Institute (now moved to SFTC Co.) and Mr. H. Kanamori and co-workers,

Idemitsu Kosan Co., respectively. The numerical calculations by use of the system are carried out by Mr.
T. Uehara and Mr. H. Ikuta, graduate students of Kyoto University.

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