Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 178, Issue -, Pages 10-25Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2019.07.043
Keywords
Medium Mn steels; Discontinuous yielding; Liiders band; Austenite-ferrite interface; Dislocation generation
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 761 Steel-ab initio
- PETRA III at DESY, a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF) [I-20170777]
- IMPRS SurMat
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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Ultrafine austenite-ferrite duplex medium Mn steels often show a discontinuous yielding phenomenon, which is not commonly observed in other composite-like multiphase materials. The underlying dislocation-based mechanisms are not understood. Here we show that medium Mn steels with an austenite matrix (austenite fraction similar to 65 vol%) can exhibit pronounced discontinuous yielding. A combination of multiple in situ characterization techniques from macroscopic (a few millimeters) down to nanoscopic scale (below 100 nm) is utilized to investigate this phenomenon. We observe that both austenite and ferrite are plastically deformed before the macroscopic yield point. In this microplastic regime, plastic deformation starts in the austenite phase before ferrite yields. The austenite-ferrite interfaces act as preferable nucleation sites for new partial dislocations in austenite and for full dislocations in ferrite. The large total interface area, caused by the submicron grain size, can provide a high density of dislocation sources and lead to a rapid increase of mobile dislocations, which is believed to be the major reason accounting for discontinuous yielding in such steels. We simultaneously study the Ltiders banding behavior and the local deformation-induced martensite forming inside the Ltiders bands. We find that grain size and the austenite stability against deformation-driven martensite formation are two important microstructural factors controlling the Ltiders band characteristics in terms of the number of band nucleation sites and their propagation velocity. These factors thus govern the early yielding stages of medium Mn steels, due to their crucial influence on mobile dislocation generations and local work hardening. (C) 2019 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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