The impact of microstructure evolution on mechanical properties in superduplex stainless steel UNS S32750 (EN 1.4410) was investigated. To this end, different thermomechanical treatments were carried out order to obtain clearly distinct duplex microstructures. Optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, together with texture measurements, used characterize the morphology preferred orie...

The current study applied thermomechanical processing (TMP) on 301 austenitic stainless steel to produce an ultrafine-grained structure, examining the dual effects of deformation at subzero temperature and TMP cycles strain-induced α′-martensitic transformation austenite reversion occurring upon subsequent annealing. Three schemes were adopted: (1) one cycle using a strain 0.30, (2) two 0.20, (...

In hot rolled products, which are the subject of other presentations here, vanadium has been used for many years in high strength products, often in combination with other microalloying additions such as niobium or titanium. Vanadium can provide important contributions via both precipitation strengthening and ferrite grain refinement (due to austenite conditioning during thermomechanical proces...