Grain boundary engineering has been proposed to increase the lifetime performance of
sensitized austenitic stainless steel in aggressive environments. Increased microstructure …

To explore the influence of deformation microstructures on the gain boundary engineering
(GBE), a series of thermo-mechanical processes (TMPs) were performed on an AL6XN …

The effects of cold rolling, subsequent continuous heating, and aging on the microstructure
and tensile properties of AISI 904L superaustenitic stainless steel were investigated. During …

Deformation microstructures of bulk ultrafine-grained austenitic AISI 304L stainless steels
were analyzed by electron backscatter diffraction. Samples with grain sizes below 500nm …

The ferritic matrix in duplex stainless steels undergoes a variety of decomposition processes
when aged in the temperature range 650–900° C. These processes involve the precipitation …

The dependence of oxidation rates on grain orientation has been observed for austenitic
alloys suggesting crystallographic control of such processes. To better understand these …

Nano/submicron austenitic stainless steels have attracted increasing attention over the past
few years due to fine structural control for tailoring engineering properties. At the …

The mechanical properties of precipitation-hardened stainless steels rely on a complex multi-
scale microstructure developed during a sequence of quenching after austenitization …

The (hcp) ε-martensite formation and the elastic strain evolution of individual (fcc) austenite
grains in metastable austenitic stainless steel AISI 301 has been investigated during in situ …

Duplex stainless steels were developed using the synergic effect of the ferritic and austenitic
phases on the mechanical and corrosion properties when they form a microstructure. Due to …