Iranian Journal of Materials Science & Engineering Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2020 109 1. INTRODUCTION Low alloy TRIP steels are known as an important class of low alloy high strength steels with a multiphase microstructure consisting of bainite and retained austenite within the ferrite matrix. These steels have desirable combination of high strength and good ductility because of strain induced martensitic transformation of meta- stable retained austenite [1]. The suitable combination of strength and ductility of TRIP steels makes them good candidates for potential application in automobile industries to improve crash worthiness accompanied by weight reduction. Mechanical properties of multiphase TRIP steels are thoroughly related to their microstructure. Consequently, estimation of these properties in a microscopic level seems to be rational. A number of micromechanical models have been exploited to simulate local deformation behavior of TRIP steels. Estimation of micro- Effect of Microstructure on Stress Dependence of Transformation Induced Plasticity in TRIP800 Low-Alloy Multiphase Steels F. Hosseinabadi 1 , A. Rezaee-Bazzaz 1* , M. Mazinani 1 and B. Mohammad Sadeghi 2 * [email protected] Received: February 2019 Revised: September 2019 Accepted: November 2019 1 Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran. 2 School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran. DOI: 10.22068/ijmse.17.1.109 Abstract: An experimental–numerical methodology was used in order to study the microstructural effects on stress state dependency of martensitic transformation kinetics in two different TRIP800 low alloy multiphase steels. Representative volume elements extracted from actual microstructure were utilized to stimulate the mechanical behavior of above mentioned steels. The mechanical behavior for each constituent phases required in the model was taken out from those reported in the literature. A stress invariant based transformation kinetics law was used to predict the martensitic phase transformation during deformation. Crystallographic and thermodynamic theories of martensitic phase transformation were utilized to estimate the constant parameters of the kinetics law, in a recently performed investigation. However, the sensitivity of the transformation to the stress state remained as an adjustable parameter. The results of the current work show that the stress state sensitivity of martensitic phase transformation in the investigated steels is microstruc- ture-dependent and the value of this parameter is almost equal to half of the bainite volume fraction. Therefore, the volume fraction of bainite in the low-alloy multiphase TRIP800 steels can be used as a first postulation to determine the value of the martensitic phase transformation sensitivity to the stress state. The microstructure based model previously developed for calculating the mechanical behavior of the TRIP800 steels can be utilized as a virtual design tool for the development of TRIP steels having specific mechanical properties. Keywords: Duplex Stainless Steel, Heat Treatment, Aging, Microstructure, Electrochemical Behaviors, Hardness. RESEARCH PAPER stress and micro-strain distribution within and around plate shape martensitic variants [2], prediction of the onset and/or the kinetics of strain induced martensitic transformation by the use of a thermodynamic transformation criterion [3], simulation of transformation induced plasticity by determination of plastic strain induced in a spherical parent phase by the growth of a spherical transformation product phase core [4- 6] and modeling of M s temperature shift under different loading circumstances, assuming strain induced martensitic phase transformation as a nucleation–controlled phenomenon [7] are among the researches in which micromechanics based method for simulation of localized deformation in TRIP steels have been utilized. Although the aforementioned investigations provide useful information about the mechanical behavior of TRIP steels, some important features in deformation behavior of these materials such as ultimate strength and ultimate ductility still cannot
Effect of Microstructure on Stress Dependence of Transformation Induced Plasticity in TRIP800 Low-Alloy Multiphase Steels
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