Fatigue Performance of Laser Welds in Heavy-Gage Press Hardening Steels

Secondary Hardening in High Speed Steels

Duplex Hardening of Steels for Aeroengine Bearings

Duplex hardening is a process in which conventional heat-treatments such as secondary or case hardening are followed up by surface nitriding to achieve exceptional properties, particularly in the context of aeroengine bearings. Hardness values in excess of 1 000 HV can in principle be achieved, and although the hardness decreases as a function of depth below the surface, some level of enhanceme...

Corrosion performance of welds in duplex, superduplex and lean duplex stainless steels

To achieve good corrosion resistance in a weld is much more challenging than for plate or sheet material, which has undergone controlled rolling, heat treatment and pickling processes in the steel mill. The choice of weld procedure and parameters, filler metal and shielding gas all play important roles. For duplex and lean duplex grades it is essential to ensure that an adequate amount of auste...

Neural-Network Analysis of Irradiation Hardening in Low-Activation Steels

An artificial neural network has been used to model the irradiation hardening of lowactivation ferritic/martensitic steels. The data used to create the model span a range of displacement damage of 0 90 dpa, within a temperature range of 273 973 K and contain 1800 points. The trained model has been able to capture the non-linear dependence of yield strength on the chemical composition and irradi...

Strength gradient enhances fatigue resistance of steels

Steels are heavily used in infrastructure and the transportation industry, and enhancing their fatigue resistance is a major challenge in materials engineering. In this study, by introducing a gradient microstructure into 304 austenitic steel, which is one of the most widely used types of stainless steel, we show that a strength gradient substantially enhances the fatigue life of the material. ...