A series of 18 Ni (300 grade) maraging steels of overall commercial purity but containing also deliberate impurity additions of sulphur, phosphorus, carbon, chromium and silicon + manganese has been studied. The fracture toughness and stress-corrosion resistance (determined using planestrain fatigue-precracked specimens tested in 3. 5% sodium chloride solution) of these steels have been compare...

The formation of precipitates during thermal processing of microalloyed steels greatly influences their mechanical properties. Precipitation behavior varies with steel composition and temperature history and can lead to beneficial grain refinement or detrimental transverse surface cracks. This work presents an efficient computational model of equilibrium precipitation of oxides, sulfides, nitri...

The structural materials used for LMFBR are austeniticsteels from Type AISI 304, 316 or steels which are simi-lar. Investigations show that a leak-be fore-break conceptcan be established for LMFBR piping systems and components,due to the ductile behavior of these steels and the opera-ting conditions. A major element of this concept is theknowledge of fatigue crack growth...

It is conventionally assumed in the mass production of steels that the processing time must be reasonable and that the material must have uniform properties. The consequence is that short heat-treatments cannot be tolerated since the scale of engineered products may be so large that uniform temperatures cannot be achieved. Similarly, thermal treatments requiring several days or weeks are not co...

Equipment of ŽĎAS, a. s. electric steel plant enables to make commercial high-grade steels with guaranteed high internal purity. Making of super clean steels means essential enhancement in qualitative requirements that requests new technological elements as well as operative management of steel making and treatment process. In order to verify the possibility to make these steels under ŽĎAS, a.s...

Low-temperature plastic flow in TRIP steels has been found to be controlled by stress-assisted isothermal martensitic transformation. For these conditions, the thermodynamics and kinetic theory of martensitic transformations leads directly to constitutive relations predicting the dependence of flow stress on temperature, strain, strain-rate, and stress-state, consistent with the observed behavi...

This study investigated the effect of heat history on the eorrosion of keepers used for dental magnetic attachments. Ferritic stainless steels of SUS 444 and 447Jl were prepared with heat treatments in the temperature range of 550-850°C for 1-5 hours. The stainless steels were electrochemically and metallurgically examined by anodic polarization curves in a O.9% NaCl solution and by microstruct...

About 70% of all the steel compositions that are currently used have been developed within the last 10 years. Novel iron alloys are being conceived, manufactured, and marketed with a regularity which has confounded many prophecies. Phase transformation theory has contributed to the successful development of steels. This overview will begin therefore with a discussion of the atomic mechanism by ...

The unabated growth of the steel industry and progressively increasing operating loads on metal structures generate a need for a search for optimum engineering solutions to improve the loadcarrying capacity and reduce metal consumption. One way of resolving this problem is to utilise high-strength steels. It is common knowledge however that the improvement of the steel strength is accompanied b...

An advanced elastic-plastic self-consistent polycrystalline model, accounting for intragranular microstructure development and evolution, is coupled with a bifurcation-based localization criterion and applied to the numerical investigation of the impact of microstructural patterns on ductility of single-phase steels. The proposed multiscale model, taking into account essential microstructural a...