Objective: To develop an experimental technique whereby fatigue properties of newly developed hlgher strength steels, as are critical to deep water structural concepts, can be more rapidly and efficiently evaluated, and to use the technique to determine the influence of steel composition and microstructure potential and stress ratio on crack propagation behavior of these steels in natural seawa...

The Bauschinger effect (BE) in single crystals of Hadfield manganese steel (Fe, 12.3Mn, 1.0C in wt pct) was studied for three crystallographic orientations, [111], [123], and [001]. Both forward tensionreverse compression (FT/RC) and forward compression-reverse tension (FC/RT) loading schemes were used to investigate the role of deformation history on the BE. The evolution of stress-strain resp...

Electrical steels are undoubtedly the most important soft magnetic materials in use today. Applications vary in quantities from the few ounces used in small relays or pulse transformers to tons used in generators, motors, and transformers. There are two principal types of electrical steels: grain oriented and non-oriented steels. The grain oriented (GO) electrotechnical steel sheets are widely ...

Although solidification cracking is not usually regarded as a serious problem when welding ferritic steels, improvements in the submerged arc welding process, using higher deposition rates and faster welding speeds, have led to welding conditions more likely to give cracking. Furthermore, the need to weld stronger tougher steels, where the inspection requirements are more stringent, has led to ...

advanced high strength steels (ahss) have recently attracted great attention because of their superior mechanical properties. a modern group of these steels, known as twinning induced plasticity (twip) steels, shows a unique combination of strength and ductility even at high rates of strain. in order to examine the functionality of such steels in dynamic loading conditions, their mechanical beh...

Four compositions of austenitic Mn-Cr steels have been developed successfully for in-vessel component materials in power plant industry. The phase stability of these Mn-Cr steels was studied by and X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns. XRD patterns have shown that the matrix of these Mn-Cr steels is a single γ-phase structure. The potentiodynamic polarisation curves suggested that these fabricated ...

The relationahip between streas-corroslon crftck velocity and cracktip stress intensity is discussed. In most high-strength steels there is a wide range of stress intensity over which crack velocity is essentially constant. Methods of estimating this velocity are described. Values for a variety of high-strength steels are presented and the effects of metallurgical variables are indicated. Impli...