Cold rolling of austenitic stainless steel results in increase of residual stresses, hardness, and tensile strength and dislocation density. We have studied the response of eddy current impedance to austenitic change, hardness and its lift off phase in stainless steels during cold reductions. A series of samples of austenitic stainless steel alloys were cold rolled and found that only percentag...

To avoid the toxic effect of released nickel ions and compounds from conventional stainless steels, nickel-free austenitic stainless steels have been developed. We previously established a new manufacturing process to produce nickel-free austenitic stainless steel that involves nitrogen adsorption treatment. Although the cytocompatibility of nickelfree austenitic stainless steel produced using ...

Paper presents the research of austenitic steel AISI 304after ion nitriding at 400◦C and at t =4h, for the two different variants of samples distribution in the working plasma reactive chamber tube. In order to assess the effectiveness of ion nitriding variants emission spectroscopy – GDOES, surface hardness tests, microstructure research (LM) of nitrided layers were made. It has been found tha...

Evaluation of the low cycle fatigue life by the small specimen test technique (SSTT) and some other properties (metallographical structure and Vickers hardness) for the TIG (tungsten inert gas) weld of F82H IEA-heat were carried out. The TIG-weld was distinguished into seven regions with different metallographical structure and hardness, which were the base metal (BM) region (region with almost...

Original scientific paper Hot rolling of CuZn27Al4 shape memory alloy results in the forming of defects in austenitic crystals. The defects such as dislocation and deformed boundaries of austenitic grains affect both "classical" material properties and the specific properties related to shape memory. Rolled and quenched alloy (ausforming treatment) shows hardening proportional to the value of i...

This article deals with non-destructive evaluation of austenitic stainless steels, which are used as the biomaterials in medical practice. Intrinsic magnetic field is investigated using the fluxgate sensor, after the applied plastic deformation. The three austenitic steel types are studied under the same conditions, while several values of the deformation are applied, respectively. The obtained...

Introduction The mechanical properties of austenitic stainless steels, including the low cyclic fatigue behavior have been a subject of numerous studies [1-8]. Nitrogen addition, in general, increases the fatigue strength by decreasing the stacking fault energy of austenitic stainless steels [6]. The stacking fault energy has a strong influence on the cross slip difficulty, thus it affects the ...

Сrystal structure and mechanism of crystallization of Fe-Ni alloys were studied by methods of X-ray diffraction and metallography. It has been found that macro- and microstructure of austenitic alloy was essentially heterogeneous at the contact and free surfaces and in the volume of a ribbon. The indentified peculiarities of the austenitic phase in different areas of the ribbon are attributed t...

Highly alloyed austenitic stainless steels are promising candidates to replace more expensive nickel-based alloys within the energy-producing industry. The present study investigates the deformation mechanisms by microstructural characterization, mechanical properties and stress–strain response of three commercial austenitic stainless steels and two commercial nickel-based alloys using uniaxial...

The stability of austenite against strain induced martensitic transformation (SIMT) strongly depends on the grain size of the austenite. This is observed in austenitic steels with grain sizes from several pm up to several hundred pm and for much smaller austenitic grains (three orders of magnitude) that are embedded in a non austenitic matrix. fcc Fe-precipitates may be formed in dilute Cu-Fe a...