Deformation microstructure and texture in a cold-rolled austenitic steel 310S with low stacking fault energy (SFE) have been investigated by SEM and TEM. When 310S plates were rolled by 95% in thickness reduction, a remarkable development of the brass-type preferred orientation was confirmed by X-ray diffraction. SEM observations of the specimens with such texture exhibited a layered structure ...

We describe here for the first time the low temperature superplasticity of nanostructured low carbon steel (microalloyed with V, N, Mn, Al, Si, and Ni). Low carbon nanograined/ultrafine-grained (NG/UFG) bulk steel was processed using a combination of cold-rolling and annealing of martensite. The complex microstructure of NG/UFG ferrite and 50-80 nm cementite exhibited high thermal stability at ...

The microstructure and residual stresses of an AA6040 Al to AZ31B Mg friction stir weld are studied using scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. The complex material flow promoted by the friction stir welding process results in a fine grained structure in the stir zone of both materials due to dynamic/recovery recrystallization. The interface between the materials is characterized ...

Corrosion behavior of friction stir processing (FSP) WE43 alloy in a simulated body fluid (SBF) was investigated. Micro-galvanic corrosion was the dominated corrosion behavior, and the corrosion resistance of FSP WE43 alloy was improved compared to the cast counterpart. Furthermore, due to the fine-grained and homogeneous microstructure, uniform corrosion morphology was observed on FSP WE43 all...

The mechanical properties of commercially pure titanium can further be improved through the grain refinement processes; however, welding fine-grained materials is challenging due to coarsening in weld area and hence weakening locally. Meanwhile, friction stir a promising process which metallurgical bonding established solid-state mixing welded; no studies have reported ultra-fine-grained commer...

Abstract The hardfill embankments are composed of cemented sand-gravel (CSG) mixtures. In some cases, however, sand and gravel used in the mixture contain fine-grained fraction. This paper aimed to study mechanical behavior microstructure CSG mixtures which base soil contains particles with different plasticity specifications. Various contents kaolinite bentonite were added a sand-cement cement...

The presence of diatoms in diatomaceous soil gives it geotechnical properties that are unusual compared with common clays. most typical physical property is its abnormally high Atterberg limits to fine-grained without diatoms. For soil, the associated many factors, such as diatom content, crushing degree, etc. In study reported here, was ascertained more lead higher plastic and liquid limits. O...

Microstructure hierarchical model considering the free-volume elements at the level of interacting crystallites (non-spherical approximation) and the agglomerates of these crystallites (spherical approximation) was developed to describe free-volume evolution in mechanochemically milled As4S4/ZnS composites employing positron annihilation spectroscopy in a lifetime measuring mode. Positron lifet...

twenty four samples of xenoliths and country rocks from the 1961 lava flow of calbuco volcano have been studied. fourteen samples have been analyzed for major elements and p, ni, ba, cr, v, zr, sc, y, and sr. five of these samples were further analyzed for sm, nd, sr, and pb isotope ratios. seventeen samples were analyzed under the microscope and three samples were analyzed by microprobe for th...