Material nonlinearity affects the stiffness and consequently distribution of internal forces moments in indeterminate structures. This has a direct impact on their behaviour design, particularly case stainless steel, where material initiates at relatively low stress levels. A method for accounting influence steel frames, including making due allowance resulting amplified second order effects, i...

This paper presents a numerical study on structural behaviour of cold-formed stainless steel channels with circular web holes, under interior-one-flange loading case. The material properties types EN 1.4509 (Ferritic), 1.4462 (Duplex) and 1.4301 (Austenitic) were taken from the literature. In order to influence hole size, location load-bearing length crippling strength such sections, parametric...

The resistance and susceptibility of austenitic stainless steel, Type 304, exposed to strong tetraoxosulphate (VI) acids (2 and 5 M concentrations) contaminated with sodium chloride at ambient temperatures was investigated by gravimetric and metallographic/scanning electron microscopy surface characterization methods. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used to examine and characterize the t...

We have developed a method for forming carbon nanotubes (CNTs) directly on the surfaces of stainless steel materials that are important industrially. Using plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition (PCVD), CNTs are formed at comparatively low temperatures, thus avoiding excessive annealing and degradation of the stainless steel. Because the catalytic metals needed for CNT formation are containe...

Steel ball indentation and scratch adhesion testing of hot filament chemical vapour deposited diamond films onto AISI type 316 austenitic stainless steel substrates using two different interlayer systems, namely chromium nitride and borided steel, have been investigated. In order to compare the adhesion of these films with that of a well-known and strongly adherent system, detailed adhesion tes...

In metastable austenitic stainless steels, strain-induced martensitic transformation during plastic deformation enhances work hardening of the material, increasing its strength and in some cases also ductility.1,2) The presence of α’-martensite, however, may increase the susceptibility of these materials to hydrogen embrittlement phenomena, for example delayed cracking.3–6) Delayed cracking can...

The present research investigates the influence of surface roughness imparted by cold finishing processes on localized corrosion resistance stainless steel. Five different alloys were studied: ferritic AISI 430, martensitic 430F, austenitic 303, 304L, and 316L. It was demonstrated that grinding process, executed previously drawn bars, leads to an improvement in according results obtained with e...

Basic properties of the suggested phenomenological model of tribocorrosion wear are considered. Using a friction pair austenitic stainless steel-ceramic in acid electrolytes as an example, a good agreement between predicted data and experimental evidence was obtained.

Ultrasonic testing of austenitic stainless steel welds is often difficult because the ultrasonic beam is subjected to many perturbations : deviation, partition, distortions and sometimes ghost echoes. These perturbations are due to the anisotropic and heterogeneous metallurgical structure of the welds. We are carrying out a research program in order to evaluate the influence of the main paramet...

A method based on the kinetics of crystal growth has been developed and applied to the computation of three-dimensional microstrucuture in austenite-matensite steels. The detailed crystallography of the transformation is used to model a realistic martensitic microstrucuture during the transformation without an external system of stresses. The interaction energy based on the plastic work model i...