High-strength low alloy steels (HSLA) have been designed to replace high-yield (HY) strength steels in naval applications involving impact loading as the latter, which contain more carbon, require complicated welding processes. The critical role of HSLA-100 steel requires achieving an accurate understanding of its behavior under dynamic loading. Accordingly, in this paper, we experimentally inv...

In the present investigation, fatigue crack growth tests under mixed-mode (I and II) overload have been conducted on HSLA steel and subsequently genetic programming has been applied to predict post overload fatigue life. It is observed that the proposed model predicts fatigue life of HSLA steel with reasonable accuracy.

Themechanical performanceofTRIP-120, a novel transformation induced plasticity steel alloy, is evaluated for different loading cases and strain rates. The performance is compared with HSLA-100, a lowalloy steel developed by the United States Navy and currently used in naval hulls. The response of these materials under uniaxial tension and shear was investigated to the point of fracture at isoth...

The resistance to hydrogen embrittlement is of essential importance for steels for vessels for storage of hydrocarbons and depends on the effect of absorbed hydrogen on steel ductility. API tests have shown for the 490 MPa yield stress HSLA steels with the microstructure of ferrite and cementite particles a much greater reduction of area than for the 350 MPa steel with the microstructure of pol...

Metallurgical design of microalloyed steel used to be a challenge due to its multivariate nature. Over ten kinds of microalloying elements and multi-step processing routes have complex interactions and different contributions to the final mechanical properties. Data-driven model is able to throw a rapid insight into the composition-processing -property correlation of steel metallurgy in a syste...

The effect of strain rate on the flow stress of a low carbon high strength ferritic steel that contains nanometer size Cu–Ni–Al precipitates is found to be much less than that of HSLA 65 that does not have such precipitates. This result is in agreement with the theory that such precipitates locally lower the Peierls stress for screw dislocations in body-centered cubic iron. The fracture mode in...

The objective of the current study is to determine the fatigue limit of a clean and high-performance material named as HSLA-100 steel and to compare the obtained fatigue limit with that of theoretically predicted fatigue limit by statistics of extreme value (SEV) method. Also, the size of inclusions located at the site of fatigue crack nucleation on the fracture surface of the fatigue test spec...

Microalloyed steels containing copper in order to promote precipitation hardening are one of the approaches adopted to develop new materials with high mechanical strength but minimized carbon content to assure good weldability. Besides that, the thermomechanical processing of such alloys can eliminate the subsequent quench and tempering heat treatments required by conventional steels. The effec...

A novel algorithm inspired by the integral image representation to derive an increasing slope segment pattern spectrum (called the Slope Pattern Spectrum for convenience), is proposed. Although many pattern spectra algorithms have their roots in mathematical morphology, this is not the case for the proposed algorithm. Granulometries and their resulting pattern spectra are useful tools for textu...