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 …

Enhanced strength and toughness of high nitrogen stainless bearing steel by controlling interstitial partitioning via V-microalloying

L Xia, H Li, H Feng, Z Jiang, H Zhu, S Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
High-nitrogen stainless bearing steel (HNSBS) with ultra-high tensile strength (∼ 2403
MPa) and good toughness (∼ 80.0 J) was obtained by V-microalloying, overcoming the …

Austenite carbon enrichment and decomposition during quenching and tempering of high silicon high carbon bearing steel

GG Ribamar, JD Escobar, AK Da Silva, N Schell… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The addition of Si to steels is a well stablished method to delay cementite precipitation,
allowing for carbon partitioning from martensite to retained austenite during tempering. It has …

An exceptionally strong, ductile and impurity-tolerant austenitic stainless steel prepared by laser additive manufacturing

Y Chen, H Zhu, P Zhang, Z Wang, M Wang, G Sha… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The effective strategy for structural steel with excellent tolerance of impurities is to increase
solidification rate to prevent the formation of segregation and intermetallic during fabrication …

Correlation between the microstructure and hydrogen embrittlement resistance in a precipitation-hardened martensitic stainless steel

Z Yang, Z Liu, J Liang, J Su, Z Yang, B Zhang… - Corrosion Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Custom 465 precipitation-hardened stainless steel was subjected to various thermal
treatments and then evaluated using tensile testing with a slow strain rate after …

Evaluation of strain-induced martensite formation and mechanical properties in N-alloyed austenitic stainless steels by in situ tensile tests

C Quitzke, C Schröder, C Ullrich, M Mandel… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, the influence of various nitrogen contents (0.12–0.23 wt.%) on the mechanical
properties, especially the strain-induced α'-martensite formation behavior, of the austenitic …

Microstrain partitioning, Transformation Induced Plasticity, and the evolution of damage during deformation of an austenitic-martensitic 1.5 GPa Quench and Partition …

C Pelligra, J Samei, BS Amirkhiz, LG Hector Jr… - Materials Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The coupling of multiple advanced characterization techniques performed on a Fe-0.2 C-3.4
Mn-1.6 Si, austenitic-martensitic, Quench and Partition steel (Q&P) with ultrahigh strength …

Ensuring the strength and ductility synergy in an austenitic stainless steel: single-or multi-phase hetero-structures design

Y Li, W Li, S Li, N Min, L Jiang, Q Zhou, X Jin - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous microstructures have been proposed to optimize the mechanical properties
in the respect of strength and ductility synergy in many alloy systems. In this work, the multi …

Relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties of M50 ultra-high strength steel via quenching-partitioning-tempering process

L Zhou, G Tang, X Ma, L Wang, X Zhang - Materials Characterization, 2018 - Elsevier
Novel quenching-partitioning-tempering (QPT) and traditional quenching-tempering (QT)
processes are conducted for M50 ultra-high strength steel. An excellent combination of …

Relationships between stretch-flangeability and microstructure-mechanical properties in ultra-high-strength dual-phase steels

JI Yoon, J Jung, HH Lee, JY Kim, HS Kim - Metals and Materials …, 2019 - Springer
To clarify the direction of microstructure design for improving stretch-flangeability,
relationships of stretch-flangeability to microstructure and mechanical properties of ultra …