in the present study, the effect of grain size on the austenite stability was studied by nanoindentationtests in a 304l stainless steel. thermomechanical processing based on cold rolling and annealing wasused to produce two different types of austenite: ultrafine grained (ufg) austenite with the averagegrain size of 0.65 μm and coarse grained (cg) austenite with the average grain size of 12 μm....

P. Vaňová, J. Sojka. VŠB Technical u niversity of O strava, FMME, Ostrava, Czech Republic This paper is dealing with hydrogen embrittlement of austenitic-ferritic 2205 duplex steel using the slow strain rate test (SSRT). The original material was subjec ted to heat treatment under 700 °C during 5 hours and f ollowing aircooling with the aim of pr ovoking sigma phase pr ecipitation and embrittle...

In this paper, the nucleation and growth of diamond/diamond-like coatings on austenitic (AISI 316) and ferritic (AISI 430) stainless steel substrates have been investigated using torch technique. The effects of substrate surface preparation has also been studied. The quality of coatings produced has been examined using optical and scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectros...

Interstitial N diffusion under low energy (approximately 700 eV) Ar+ bombardment at 673 K in ion beam nitrided austenitic stainless steel is investigated. Ar+ ion bombardment increases the N mobility in depths far beyond the ion penetration depth, resulting in an increased broadening of the N depth profile as a function of Ar+ flux. This effect cannot be explained by any established mechanism o...

A new indexing procedure based on the direct measurement of the possible grain orientation is presented to characterize single grains within the frame of three-dimensional X-ray diffraction. Depending on the number of reflections considered, the accuracy of grain orientation may be less than 0.1°. The newly developed indexing method was applied to characterize orientation changes of single grai...

In the paper, the influence of heat treatment parameters on microstructure and mechanical properties of high manganese type X57MnAl27-5 austenitic steel was investigated. The as-forged bar with diameter of 15 mm were underwent a saturation process at six different temperatures. The microstructural changes of austenite and the influence of heat treatment on the mechanical properties were conside...

the austenitic stainless steel (ss) has been used as a material for  building  ultra  high  vacuum  (uhv)  chamber.  recently significant  efforts  have  been  concerned  a  comparing  the standard  cleaned  for  ultra  high  vacuum,  passivity  stainless. in  this work austenitic  nanocomposites were  synthesize by sol-  gel method. the morphologies  and  topographies  of  the samples  have  b...

The data presented in this article is related to the research experiment, titled: 'Quasi in-situ energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy observation of matrix and solute interactions on Y-Ti-O oxide particles in an austenitic stainless steel under 1 MeV Kr2+ high temperature irradiation' (Brooks et al., 2017) [1]. Quasi in-situ analysis during 1 MeV Kr2+ 520 °C irradiation allowed the same microst...

A generalized phase transformation kinetics model is used to understand the martensite to austenite transformation in a cold-rolled and annealed metastable AISI 301LN ultrafine-grained austenitic stainless steel. The model shows that the presence of interstitial nitrogen and heavy cold-rolling is important to promote fast transformation kinetics, through rapid nitrogen-diffusion and austenite n...

In this study, we report a procedure for producing syntactic steel foams by melt infiltration of millimeter-sized ceramic microspheres. The gravity-fed infiltration method yields steel foam with uniform distributions of microspheres and negligible unintended porosity. The critical parameters in the manufacturing process are the melt temperature and the preheat temperature of the microspheres pr...