Simultaneous hydroforming of bulge- and T-zone in 304 stainless steel and 70/30 brass tubes

Compressibility of 304 Stainless Steel Powder Metallurgy Materials Reinforced with 304 Short Stainless Steel Fibers

Powder metallurgy (P/M) technique is usually used for manufacturing porous metal materials. However, some P/M materials are limitedly used in engineering for their performance deficiency. A novel 304 stainless steel P/M material was produced by a solid-state sintering of 304 stainless steel powders and 304 short stainless steel fibers, which were alternately laid in layers according to mass rat...

Radiation-induced Segregation and Void Swelling in 304 Stainless Steel

. Void swelling and radiation-induced segregation have been measured in 304 stainless steel. Samples were irradiated in the outer regions of the EBR-11reactor where displacement rates of 2.OX10-8and 6.6 xl 0-8dpds are comparable to those in pressurized water reactor components. Samples were inadiated at temperatures from 371-390°C to total doses of up to 20 dpa. Void swelling reached a maximum ...

Corrosion Performance and Tribological Properties of Carbonitrided 304 Stainless Steel

Magnetic Properties of Metastable 304 Stainless Steel with Bcc Structure

Ordinary 304 stainless steel has a fcc structure and is non-magnetic at room temperature. By using a vapor quenching method, we have fabricated single-phase metastable bcc 304 stainless steel which is strongly ferromagnetic with a magnetization of 130 emu/g and a Curie temperature in excess of 550 OC. Upon subsequent annealing above 550 OC, the metastable bcc state transforms back into the usua...

Two-dimensional grain boundary percolation in alloy 304 stainless steel

An experimentally-obtained percolation threshold for high-angle random grain boundary networks in alloy 304 stainless steel is compared to thresholds predicted by percolation theory. A discrepancy occurs in the two values (0.46 experimental and 0.65 theoretical). Possible reasons for the discrepancy are explored. The grain boundary network appears to be composed of two distinct sub-networks, wi...

Microstructural analysis of expanded stainless steel 304 cylinders

A gas-gun technique to radially expand cylinders of a chosen material, based on a technique developed in 1979, has recently been re-established. Stainless steel 304 cylinders of length 160 mm, internal diameter 67 mm and thickness either 0.5 or 1.5 mm have been expanded using a 70 mm bore single-stage gas-gun. Microstructural analysis of the recovered specimens was performed using optical micro...