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Type: Article

Grain size effect on the martensite formation in a high-manganese TWIP steel by the Rietveld method

Journal: Journal of Materials Science and Technology (10050302)Year: 2010/02/01Volume: Issue: 2
Dini G.aNajafizadeh A.Monir-Vaghefi S.M. Ueji R.
DOI:10.1016/S1005-0302(10)60030-8Language: English

Abstract

The aim of the present work was to study the effect of austenite grain size (AGS) on the martensite formation in a high-manganese twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) steel. The results of a quantitative microstructural characterization of the steel by the whole X-ray pattern fitting Rietveld software, materials analysis using diffraction (MAUD), indicated that the volume fraction of αbcc-martensite increases with increasing AGS. However, the value of the stacking fault probability (Psf) does not show a large variation for samples with different values of AGS under water-quenching conditions. ©2010 by The Editorial Board of Journal of Materials Science Technology.


Author Keywords

Austenite grain sizeMartensite formationStacking fault probabilityTWIP steelGrain size and shapeManganeseMartensiteMartensitic steelPlasticitySteel