Thermomechanical processing of advanced high strength steels

J Zhao, Z Jiang - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Advanced high strength steels (AHSSs) are regarded as the most promising materials for
vehicles in the 21st century. AHSSs are complex and sophisticated materials, with …

Fundamentals and application of solid-state phase transformations for advanced high strength steels containing metastable retained austenite

Z Dai, H Chen, R Ding, Q Lu, C Zhang, Z Yang… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over many decades, significant efforts have been made to improve the strength-elongation
product of advanced high strength steels (AHSSs) by creating tailored multi-phase …

Bifunctional nanoprecipitates strengthen and ductilize a medium-entropy alloy

Y Yang, T Chen, L Tan, JD Poplawsky, K An, Y Wang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Single-phase high-and medium-entropy alloys with face-centred cubic (fcc) structure can
exhibit high tensile ductility, and excellent toughness,, but their room-temperature strengths …

The effect of morphology on the stability of retained austenite in a quenched and partitioned steel

XC Xiong, B Chen, MX Huang, JF Wang, L Wang - Scripta Materialia, 2013 - Elsevier
Synchrotron X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy experiments are
employed to investigate the mechanical stability of retained austenite in a quenching and …

Effects of Mn and Al contents on cryogenic-temperature tensile and Charpy impact properties in four austenitic high-Mn steels

SS Sohn, S Hong, J Lee, BC Suh, SK Kim, BJ Lee… - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Effects of Mn (19 and 22 wt.%) and Al (0 and 2 wt.%) contents on tensile and
Charpy impact properties in four austenitic high-Mn steels were investigated at room and …

3D structural and atomic-scale analysis of lath martensite: effect of the transformation sequence

L Morsdorf, CC Tasan, D Ponge, D Raabe - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
To improve the fundamental understanding of the multi-scale characteristics of martensitic
microstructures and their micro-mechanical properties, a multi-probe methodology is …

Austenite stability of ultrafine-grained transformation-induced plasticity steel with Mn partitioning

S Lee, SJ Lee, BC De Cooman - Scripta Materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
The factors leading to the room temperature stabilization of austenite were investigated for
an ultrafine-grained 6 mass% Mn transformation-induced plasticity steel. The size effect of …

A review of the thermal stability of metastable austenite in steels: Martensite formation

Y Li, D San Martín, J Wang, C Wang, W Xu - Journal of Materials Science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Metastable austenite plays a critical role in achieving improved combinations of high
strength and high ductility/toughness in the design of advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) …

On the selection of the optimal intercritical annealing temperature for medium Mn TRIP steel

S Lee, BC De Cooman - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2013 - Springer
A model is proposed to predict the room temperature austenite volume fraction as a function
of the intercritical annealing temperature for medium Mn transformation-induced plasticity …

Effect of grain size on thermal and mechanical stability of austenite in metastable austenitic stainless steel

Y Matsuoka, T Iwasaki, N Nakada, T Tsuchiyama… - ISIJ …, 2013 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In order to clarify the grain size dependence of mechanical stability of austenite, deformation-
induced martensitic transformation behavior was investigated on uniaxial tensile …