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 …

Physical metallurgy of medium-Mn advanced high-strength steels

B Sun, A Kwiatkowski da Silva, Y Wu, Y Ma… - International …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Steels with medium manganese (Mn) content (3∼ 12 wt-%) have emerged as a new alloy
class and received considerable attention during the last decade. The microstructure and …

Tailoring retained austenite and mechanical property improvement in Al–Si–V containing medium Mn steel via direct intercritical rolling

J Hu, XY Li, QW Meng, LY Wang, YZ Li, W Xu - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Medium Mn steels are promising candidates for the third-generation advanced high strength
steels. However, it shows a distinct limit of mechanical property under conventional hot …

Current challenges and opportunities toward understanding hydrogen embrittlement mechanisms in advanced high-strength steels: a review

B Sun, D Wang, X Lu, D Wan, D Ponge… - Acta Metallurgica Sinica …, 2021 - Springer
Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) is one of the most dangerous yet most elusive embrittlement
problems in metallic materials. Advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) are particularly prone …

Dependence of hydrogen embrittlement mechanisms on microstructure-driven hydrogen distribution in medium Mn steels

B Sun, W Krieger, M Rohwerder, D Ponge, D Raabe - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
The risk of hydrogen embrittlement (HE) is currently one important factor impeding the use of
medium Mn steels. However, knowledge about HE in these materials is sparse. Their …

Effect of pre-existed austenite on austenite reversion and mechanical behavior of an Fe-0.2 C-8Mn-2Al medium Mn steel

R Ding, Z Dai, M Huang, Z Yang, C Zhang, H Chen - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract A Quenching-Austenite Reversion Treatment (Q-ART) is used to process an Fe-0.2
C-8Mn-2Al (all in wt.%) medium Mn steel to investigate the effect of pre-existed austenite on …

The influence of silicon additions on the deformation behavior of austenite-ferrite duplex medium manganese steels

B Sun, F Fazeli, C Scott, N Brodusch, R Gauvin, S Yue - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
The present study systematically investigated the effect of Si additions from 0 to 3 wt.% on
the deformation mechanisms of a 0.2 C-10Mn-3Al medium Mn steel. Two austenite-ferrite …

Discontinuous strain-induced martensite transformation related to the Portevin-Le Chatelier effect in a medium manganese steel

B Sun, N Vanderesse, F Fazeli, C Scott, J Chen… - Scripta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
The correlation between the strain-induced martensite transformation (SIMT) and the
Portevin-Le Chatelier (PLC) effect during tensile testing of a ferrite-austenite duplex medium …

Temperature-dependent micromechanical behavior of medium-Mn transformation-induced-plasticity steel studied by in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction

M Zhang, L Li, J Ding, Q Wu, YD Wang, J Almer, F Guo… - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
The temperature-dependent micromechanical behavior of medium-Mn transformation-
induced-plasticity (TRIP) steel with a nominal chemical composition of Fe-0.1 C-10Mn-2Al …

A review of the processing, microstructure and property relationships in medium Mn steels

TWJ Kwok, D Dye - International Materials Reviews, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Medium Mn steels are an emerging class of 3rd generation advanced high-strength steels.
These steels have received significant attention due to their high strengths, large ductilities …