aisi 304l austenitic stainless steel with different grain sizes of 0.5 -12 μm was obtained through the martensiticprocess. corrosion behavior of different samples was investigated in a 0.5m hcl solution using open circuitpotential, potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy tests. also, the correlationbetween the grain size and pitting corrosion resistance was asses...

The influence of the microstructure on thermal behavior cathodic arc deposited TiAlN coatings was studied as a function isothermal annealing. Two compositionally similar but structurally different were compared, Ti 0·34 Al 0·66 N 0.96 coating with fine-grain structure consisting mixture cubic (c) and hexagonal (h) phases, 0·40 0·60 0.94 coarse-grain phase. By in situ wide-angle synchrotron x-ra...

High specific strength of the material is critical for many structural applications in automotive and aerospace design. Among many other approaches for strengthening the materials, development of superfine and nano grained microstructure is becoming popular. Different techniques for producing ultra-fine-grained (UFG) materials have been introduced especially in the last decade. The advantages o...

Suspension plasma spraying is a process that enables the production of finely grained nanometric or submicrometric coatings. The suspensions are formulated with the use of fine powder particles in water or alcohol with some additives. Subsequently, the suspension is injected into plasma jet and the liquid additives evaporate. The remaining fine solids are molten and subsequently agglomerate or ...

In this study, Al-17%Si alloys were dual modified by fine-grained structural materials (FSM) according to structural heredity. Microstructure and thermal analyses were undertaken to study the modification effect of the FSM master alloy on primary and eutectic Si. Primary Si is refined to a smaller size and eutectic Si is modified from needle-like to fibrous shape after FSM master alloy addition...

The grain boundary character distribution (GBCD) of a fully-orthorhombic (O) Ti–25Al–24Nb (at.%) microstructure was investigated using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). The fine-grained (GS=17 lm) equiaxed microstructure was processed by hot forging and hot-rolling operations performed below the body-centered cubic (bcc) phase transus temperature followed by heat treatment in the O-phase...

Deformation microstructure and texture in a cold-rolled austenitic steel 310S with low stacking fault energy (SFE) have been investigated by SEM and TEM. When 310S plates were rolled by 95% in thickness reduction, a remarkable development of the brass-type preferred orientation was confirmed by X-ray diffraction. SEM observations of the specimens with such texture exhibited a layered structure ...