Tailoring the fraction and stability of retained austenite in the medium manganese steel has always been an issue of great industrial interest. A novel cyclic austenite reversion treatment (ART) is proposed to obtain considerable amount of retained austenite in a Fe-0.21C-4.53Mn (wt%) steel, and...detailed
Hydrogen desorption behaviour of two different austenite-containing steels pre- and post-deformation was studied using a combination of X-ray diffraction, microprinting and thermal desorption analysis, aided by diffusion simulations. The change in hydrogen desorption rates was found to be closel...detailed
Influence of austenite morphology on the hydrogen embrittlement in medium Mn transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) steel was investigated. With nearly the same volume fraction and mechanical stability, the lath-type austenite is found to have more beneficial effect in relieving the hydrogen s...detailed
There is sufficient experimental evidence to propose that the formation kinetics of athermal martensite directly depends on the austenite grain structure from which the martensite forms. Yet, this dependence is frequently ignored. The present study investigates the role of the prior austenite gr...detailed
Retained austenite plays a significant role in the strength-ductility balance of medium Mn steels. In this contribution, a new processing route (Flash-Austenite Reversion Treatment, Flash-ART) was proposed to design retained austenite with a compositional core-shell structure in an Fe-0.20C-7.76...detailed
Austenite memory and subsequent spontaneous recrystallization during austenitization is stated for some types of soft martensitic stainless steels such as X4CrNiMo16-5-1 or 13Cr5Ni but have not been proposed for the commercial alloy PH15-5 until now. However, the understanding of the austenitiza...detailed
To obtain a better strength-toughness balance of martensite-austenite dual phase deposited metals, an austenite reversed treatment (ART) with short holding time (namely S-ART), combining with the advantage of quenching & partitioning (Q&P) is proposed. The dual phase deposited metal is heated to...detailed