TY - GEN

T1 - The effect of loading during martensitic transformation of a maraging steel after prior austenite grain size refinement by thermal cycling

AU - Petersmann, Manuel

AU - Antretter, Thomas

AU - Sannikov, Aleksandr

PY - 2018/9/19

Y1 - 2018/9/19

N2 - This work demonstrates the efficiency of microstructural tuning by external loading during the martensitic phase transformation of a 12Cr-9Ni-2Mo-0.7Al-0.35Ti maraging steel. Additional prior austenite grain size refinement is achieved by thermal cycling yielding industrially relevant grain sizes, for which not the full set of all 24 characteristic Kurdjumov-Sachs orientation relation variants of martensite is obtained within each grain. For the last thermal cycle three different cases are investigated: i) one specimen is annealed at a higher temperature before the last cooling, ii) one specimen is loaded with a tensile stress of 120 MPa and iii) one specimen with an equivalent 120 MPa Mises stress in torsion during the transformation. This study is one of the first combining the effects of a small grain size, a high dislocation density and external loadings. Orientation imaging microscopy data is presented, revealing the effect of loading type during transformation on the final texture and interface/boundary character.

AB - This work demonstrates the efficiency of microstructural tuning by external loading during the martensitic phase transformation of a 12Cr-9Ni-2Mo-0.7Al-0.35Ti maraging steel. Additional prior austenite grain size refinement is achieved by thermal cycling yielding industrially relevant grain sizes, for which not the full set of all 24 characteristic Kurdjumov-Sachs orientation relation variants of martensite is obtained within each grain. For the last thermal cycle three different cases are investigated: i) one specimen is annealed at a higher temperature before the last cooling, ii) one specimen is loaded with a tensile stress of 120 MPa and iii) one specimen with an equivalent 120 MPa Mises stress in torsion during the transformation. This study is one of the first combining the effects of a small grain size, a high dislocation density and external loadings. Orientation imaging microscopy data is presented, revealing the effect of loading type during transformation on the final texture and interface/boundary character.

M3 - Conference contribution

SP - 207

EP - 212

BT - Sonderbände der Praktischen Metallographie Band 52

T2 - 15. Internationale Metallographie-Tagung

Y2 - 19 September 2018 through 21 September 2018

ER -