Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 106, Issue -, Pages 32-39Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2015.12.043
Keywords
Low temperature surface hardening; Gas nitriding; Expanded austenite; Magnetostriction; Mossbauer spectroscopy
Funding
- Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) [11-106293]
- Danscatt
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The crystal structure and magnetic properties of austenitic stainless steel with a colossal interstitial content, so-called expanded austenite, are currently not completely understood. In the present work, the magnetic properties of homogeneous samples of expanded austenite, as prepared by low-temperature nitriding of thin foils, were investigated with magnetometry and Mossbauer spectroscopy. At room temperature, expanded austenite is paramagnetic for relatively low and for relatively high nitrogen contents (y(N) = 0.13 and 0.55, respectively, where y(N) is the interstitial nitrogen occupancy), while ferromagnetism is observed for intermediate nitrogen loads. Spontaneous volume magnetostriction was observed in the ferromagnetic state and the Curie temperature was found to depend strongly on the nitrogen content. For the first time, X-ray diffraction evidence for the occurrence of long-range interstitial order of nitrogen atoms in expanded austenite was observed for high nitrogen contents. (C) 2016 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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