For the mechanical behavior of steels with metastable austenite, it was widely accepted that high strain rates could weaken deformation-induced martensitic transformation (DIMT) and reduce work-hardening behavior. This limits application these for energy-absorption applications, e.g., impact conditions. However, mechanism strain-rate dependent DIMT is still not well understood greatly limited f...

In this paper, we present results of fatigue tests a natural steel composite material for cyclic bending by zero-loading cycle. Natural ferrite-martensitic (NFMC) has structure alternating layers ductile ferrite and strong martensite, which causes special mechanism crack retardation under loading. The cycle assumes the presence tensile forces directed only in one direction, makes it possible to...

Many studies monitoring the formation of martensite during the tensile deformation of austenite report data which are, in principle, affected by both the applied stress and the resulting plastic strain. It is not clear in these circumstances whether the transformation is stress induced (i.e. the stress provides a mechanical driving force) or whether the generation of defects during deformation ...

We are interested in the phase transformation from austenite to martensite. This transformation is typically accompanied by the generation and growth of small inclusions of martensite. We consider a model from geometrically linear elasticity with sharp energy penalization for phase boundaries. Focusing on a cubic-to-tetragonal phase transformation, we show that the minimal energy for an inclusi...

The Ginzburg-Landau theory for multivariant martensitic phase transformations is advanced in three directions: the potential is developed that introduces the surface tension at interfaces; a mixed term in gradient energy is introduced to control the martensite-martensite interface energy independent of that for austenite-martensite; and a noncontradictory expression for variable surface energy ...

in the present study, the mechanical behavior of aa5052 aluminum alloy during cold deformation and subsequent isothermal annealing in a temperature range of 225-300oc was investigated using the uniaxial tensile test data. it is found that by increasing the annealing time and temperature the material yield strength is decreased. the microstructural investigations of the annealed samples show tha...