Preface to the Special Issue “Heterogeneous Deformation Microstructure and Related Mechanical Properties”
Toshihiro Tsuchiyama
pp. 89-89
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Toshihiro Tsuchiyama
pp. 89-89
Manabu Takahashi, Kotaro Ueno, Kenta Sakaguchi, Kohtaro Hayashi, Hiroyuki Kawata, Shigeto Yamasaki
pp. 90-100
Abstract
A modified continuum composite model was utilized to analyze the stress–strain behavior of as-quenched steels with a fully martensitic microstructure. The model was employed to express the stress–strain curves obtained by a simple tensile test and those obtained by forward and backward loading using a simple shear test machine. The study confirmed that the model can represent the stress–strain behavior under both forward and backward deformation. In addition, the evolution of local strain distributions during plastic deformation was investigated using a digital image correlation method. The strain distributions and their evolution during deformation were qualitatively represented using this model. The discrepancies between the model calculations and experiments are due to the limitations of the iso-work assumption and the impact of slip deformation on the macroscopic work-hardening behavior of martensitic steels. Highly strain-concentrated regions aligned along the longitudinal direction of the lath and block, known as in-lath-plane slips, may not play an important role in the work-hardening behavior of as-quenched martensitic steels. However, the other slips, namely the out-of-lath slip, may play a significant role in the work hardening of as-quenched martensitic steels.
Yushi Takenouchi, Shuhei Wada, Takuro Masumura, Toshihiro Tsuchiyama, Hiroshi Okano, Shusaku Takagi
pp. 101-109
Abstract
Stress relaxation tests were conducted in the elastic region of an ultralow carbon martensitic steel (Fe-18%Ni alloy) to quantitatively analyze the effect of mobile dislocations on the low elastic limit of the steel. The elastic limit of the as-quenched material was measured at 255 MPa, although its tensile strength was as high as 720 MPa. The stress relaxation tests, which were performed at 255 MPa, revealed a remarkable stress reduction due to the movement of the mobile dislocations present in the as-quenched material. The total dislocation density barely changed during the test, while the distribution parameter (M-value) decreased significantly, indicating that the mobile dislocations exhibited stable arrangements. The 5% cold rolling before the relaxation tests suppressed the relaxation and simultaneously increased the elastic limit to a maximum, 435 MPa. By estimating the mobile dislocation density by relating the stress reduction in the stress relaxation tests to the distance of the dislocation movement evaluated via transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations, it was estimated that the mobile dislocation density of the 5%-cold-rolled material was lowered to ~1/10 of that of the as-quenched material.
Kosuke Shibata, Motoki Fujita, Shigenobu Nanba, Norimitsu Koga
pp. 110-117
Abstract
Strain distribution developed during tensile deformation in as quenched martensitic steels with various prior austenite grain sizes (PAGS) was visualized by using digital image correlation method, and then the effect of PAGS on strain distribution was discussed based on the results obtained from SEM/EBSD measurements. The martensitic steels with PAGS ranging from 8 to 110 μm were fabricated by controlling the solution-treated temperature. Carbides were observed in all specimens, suggesting that the auto-tempering occurred during the water quenching. The amount and size of carbide increased with increasing the PAGS. Inhomogeneous microscopic strain distribution in a unit of block was developed by tensile deformation in all specimens, and the strain distribution became rather inhomogeneous with increasing the PAGS. The blocks with the high Schmid factor of habit plane slip system tended to exhibit high strain. It was observed that there were blocks with low Schmid factor but high strain, and such blocks had numerous carbide precipitates, indicating that those blocks were well-tempered by auto-tempering. The nano-indentation hardness in the blocks with well-tempered blocks tended to be lower than that in the less-tempered blocks. The well-tempered blocks exhibited high strain independent of Schmid factor of habit plane slip system. Thus, the auto-tempering is one of the influential factors on the inhomogeneous strain distribution in as quenched martensitic steel. It could be reasonably understood that the increase of PAGS led to the increase of Ms temperature and the promotion of auto-tempering, resulting in rather inhomogeneous strain distribution in coarse-PAGS specimen.
Yusaku Shirakami, Takuro Masumura, Shigenobu Nanba, Toshihiro Tsuchiyama
pp. 118-129
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As-quenched α'-martensitic structure and its mechanical properties of Fe-1.5%Mn-0.5%C-Al alloys containing various concentrations of Al were investigated. Microstructural observations of specimens heat-treated under various conditions confirmed that a austenite single-phase region can be obtained in the temperature range from 1373 K to 1473 K when Al is increased up to 3%. Dilatometry tests showed that the Ms temperature increases at a rate of 25 K/mass% with increasing Al content. The hardness of α' tended to decrease due to the decrease in the concentration of carbon in solid solution by auto-tempering and the formation of coarse blocks near the prior austenite grain boundaries. The coarse blocks had a butterfly shape, and there were no lath structures or transformation twins inside them, but rather high-density dislocations and carbides. Tensile tests on the 2%Al steel showed that the above coarse blocks can produce a large strain, which suppresses early rupture, resulting in a significant increase in ductility without any loss of strength.
Takahisa Suzuki
pp. 130-142
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Microstructure of martensite has variety in size of martensite blocks and mechanical properties, depending on transformation temperature in sequential martensite transformation. Transformation temperature and type of martensite (lath or butterfly) are known to depend on chemical composition, mainly carbon content of steels. In this paper, we used 0.2~0.8 mass%C steel to prepare two grade tensile strength steel (1500 MPa and 2000 MPa) after quenching and tempering. After tensile test of these steels, we investigated the microstructure, nano hardness distribution and deformation property by Kernel Average Misorientation (KAM) map of Electron Back Scattered Diffraction pattern analysis (EBSD). In microstructure, lath martensite size was refined by the increase of carbon content. But course butterfly martensite was also formed around the former austenite grain boundary in high carbon steel. Nano hardness was lower at the course lath martensite in low carbon steel and course butterfly martensite in high carbon steel. Deformation properties were evaluated by comparing KAM map at not deformed region and uniform elongation deformed region. In 1500 MPa grade steel, 0.2%C and 0.4%C steel deformed uniformly, but strain was concentrated at low KAM grains in 0.6%C carbon steel. In 2000 MPa grade steel, deformation was concentrated at low KAM grains even in 0.4%C steel. These results shows that mechanical properties and deformation properties of martensite is not uniform at the level of martensite blocks, even if macro strength is similar among steels with different chemical composition.
Norimitsu Koga, Motoki Fujita, Kosuke Shibata, Shigenobu Nanba
pp. 143-149
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The strain distribution and microstructure at the crack nucleation sites in martensitic steel with fine- and coarse-prior austenite grains subjected to tensile deformation were characterized using the digital image correlation method on replica films. Although the tensile properties of the fine- and coarse-prior austenite grain specimens were approximately identical, the total strain was certainly improved in the coarse-prior austenite grain specimen. The crack size increased with the coarsening prior austenite grains, whereas the number of cracks decreased. An inhomogeneous strain was introduced in both the specimens by tensile deformation. The accumulated strain when crack nucleates was approximately the same in both specimens, independent of the prior austenite grain size. In low-strain regions, there were no cracks even though the accumulated strain was comparable to that when crack nucleates in high-strain regions. The strain at the crack nucleation sites was high even before crack nucleation occurred. Cracks primarily nucleated on packet and prior austenite grain boundaries, even in the coarse-prior austenite grain specimen, which confirmed that the prior austenite grain boundary should be a preferential crack nucleation site. It can be concluded that the high local strain and the presence of packet or prior austenite grain boundaries are responsible for crack nucleation in martensitic steel subjected to tensile deformation.
Norimitsu Koga, Seiji Kumon, Chihiro Watanabe
pp. 150-159
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The strain distribution in the 9 mass%Ni steel introduced by tensile deformation at cryogenic temperature was visualized using a digital image correlation method, and the relationship between the strain distribution and the microstructure of the steel was systematically investigated. Based on the obtained results, the factors that influence the strain distribution were discussed. In the present 9mass%Ni steel, regions consisting of tempered- and fresh-martensite and austenite (TFMA) were embedded in the tempered martensite matrix. The volume fraction of the retained austenite varied along the normal direction of the hot-rolled plates, indicating that Ni segregation occurred during the manufacturing process. As the tensile stress increased, the total elongation remained constant with decreasing temperature. Strain was introduced inhomogeneously via tensile deformation at 77 K. The high- and low-strain regions tended to be distributed in a unit of the block, indicating that the deformability differed among the blocks. The average strain in the block (εblock) was strongly correlated with the Schmid factor of the slip system on the habit plane (SFhabit) and area fraction of TFMA in a block (AMA). The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression revealed that the contributions of SFhabit and AMA to εblock were nearly equal. Therefore, the deformability of the block in the 9 mass%Ni steel is dominated by SFhabit and ATFMA.
Kwangsik Kwak, Takateru Yamamuro, Yoji Mine, Shigekazu Morito, Kazuki Takashima
pp. 160-170
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Microtensile and microfracture tests were performed on the sharp-edge regions of Japanese swords fabricated in the Muromachi and Showa periods, which are called old sword (OS) and modern sword (MS), respectively, to correlate the mechanical properties with the inhomogeneous microstructures. The hardness of the sharp-edge regions was characterised by the distribution of fine pearlite mixed in martensite microstructures. The OS containing a large fraction of fine pearlite exhibited a low hardness compared to the MS. Microtensile tests using sharp-edge specimens revealed a positive correlation between their tensile strength and strain-to-failure, as opposed to the common tendency in conventional carbon steels made by modern iron-making technology. The fracture surfaces of the sharp-edge specimens were composed of intergranular and dimple fracture features. The tensile strength and dimple fracture area fraction were higher in the OS than in the MS. These findings suggest that the fine pearlite microstructure contributes to increased strength in the sharp-edge region through inhibiting the linkage of intergranular cracking owing to local plastic deformation. Microfracture tests using the sharp-edge specimens revealed that the intrinsic fracture resistance of both OS and MS was determined by the intergranular fracture, whereas the fine pearlite microstructure increased the resistance to crack propagation. The micromechanical testing study indicates that in the sharp-edge regions, their strength and fracture toughness are simultaneously enhanced by the presence of fine pearlite although depending on its distribution.
Tomohiko Hojo, Akihiko Nagasaka, Ryusei Wakabayashi, Chihaya Tabata, Yota Kondo, Kazuma Ogasawara, Yuki Shibayama, Eiji Akiyama
pp. 171-183
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In this study, the effect of hydrogen on the tensile shear strength of spot-welded transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP)-aided martensitic (TM) steel sheet was investigated. The tensile shear tests were carried out on a tensile testing machine using the spot-welded specimen which was spot-welded at the lapped portion of 30 mm×30 mm using specimen with dimensions of width of 30 mm and length of 170 mm at crosshead speeds of v=0.5 to 100 mm/min with and without hydrogen. The results were summarized as follows.
Natsumi Morooka, Aya Matsushita, Masanori Sano, Takuya Yamaoka, Soichiro Yamaguchi, Kwangsik Kwak, Yoji Mine, Kazuki Takashima
pp. 184-196
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Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) susceptibility was evaluated on JIS-SUP12-based steel (SB), and V-, Nb- and (Nb+Mo)-added steels (SV, SNb and SNbMo, respectively) under uniaxial tension and high stress triaxiality conditions, to elucidate the roles of the microalloying elements in the HE mechanisms of 2 GPa-grade medium-carbon Si–Cr spring steels, which were obtained via low-temperature tempering. The SV steel contained solute V and undissolved V carbides, the SNb steel undissolved Nb carbides and the SNbMo steel solute Mo and undissolved Nb carbides. The microalloying of V, Nb and Mo decreased the apparent hydrogen diffusivity owing to strong hydrogen attraction by solute V and Mo, and reversible hydrogen trapping with V and Nb carbides. Although all the steels attained the 2 GPa tensile strength in an uncharged state, hydrogen significantly reduced the tensile strength through premature failure before the onset of yielding under uniaxial tension condition. In the hydrogen-charged specimens, the strength was strongly correlated with the shear fracture surface area. The HE susceptibility was increased in the following order: SNbMo ≈ SNb < SB < SV. This suggests that hydrogen-induced plasticity mitigates the HE susceptibility in the SNb and SNbMo steels, whereas the solute V facilitates the hydrogen-induced plastic inhomogeneity, which leads to premature fracture. Under high stress triaxiality condition in micro-cantilever specimens, hydrogen decreased the intrinsic fracture resistance to one third compared to the uncharged specimens, regardless of the steels. In the microalloyed specimens, hydrogen suppressed intergranular fracture, whereas the dependence of fracture resistance on the microalloying element was minor.
Motomichi Koyama, Takayuki Yamashita, Satoshi Morooka, Takahiro Sawaguchi, Zhipeng Yang, Tomohiko Hojo, Takuro Kawasaki, Stefanus Harjo
pp. 197-204
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The local plasticity and associated microstructure evolution in Fe-5Mn-0.1C medium-Mn steel (wt.%) were investigated in this study. Specifically, the micro-deformation mechanism during Lüders banding was characterized based on multi-scale electron backscatter diffraction measurements and electron channeling contrast imaging. Similar to other medium-Mn steels, the Fe-5Mn-0.1C steel showed discontinuous macroscopic deformation, preferential plastic deformation in austenite, and deformation-induced martensitic transformation during Lüders deformation. Hexagonal close-packed martensite was also observed as an intermediate phase. Furthermore, an in-situ neutron diffraction experiment revealed that the pre-existing body-centered cubic phase, which was mainly ferrite, was a minor deformation path, although ferrite was the major constituent phase.
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Takuya Maeda, Kyosuke Matsuda, Misa Takanashi, Takuro Masumura, Toshihiro Tsuchiyama, Hiroyuki Shirahata, Ryuji Uemori
pp. 268-278
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To clarify the characteristics of plastic deformation behavior in quenched Fe-10%Mn-0.1%C alloy (10Mn steel), the microstructure and tensile deformation behavior were investigated and the non-uniform deformation behavior was analyzed using digital image correlation (DIC) method. As a comparison material, Fe-5%Mn-0.1%C alloy with common lath martensitic structure (5Mn steel) was used. The 10Mn steel has an equiaxed ultrafine-grained (α'+ε+γ) three-phase microstructure formed through a two-step martensitic transformation of γ→ε→α' during quenching. Tensile testing of 10Mn steel results in a stress-strain curve characterized by a clear yield point and significant work hardening. The yielding of 10Mn steel can be explained by the generation of plastic strain due to the stress-induced martensitic transformations such as ε→α' and γ→α' transformations. Furthermore, the subsequent work hardening can be explained by the combined mechanism of the continuous ε→α' and γ→α' transformations responsible for plastic deformation and the hard α' martensite responsible for stress. In 5Mn steel with lath martensitic microstructure, strain is concentrated in specific blocks during tensile deformation due to the priority of habit plane slip system, and the plastic deformation proceeds non-uniformly, whereas in 10Mn steel with equiaxed ultrafine grain microstructure, although small strain bands are generated, relatively uniform deformation tends to occur. The ε martensite and retained γ dispersed in the microstructure are considered unlikely to be the cause of contributing to non-uniform deformation.
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Yelm Okuyama, Tetsuya Ohashi
pp. 321-332
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By using finite element method for crystal plasticity, we investigated the accumulation behavior of dislocation and atomic vacancies introduced by non-uniform deformation in pure iron polycrystals. Dislocation density was calculated from the increment of plastic shear strain and spatial gradient of the slip systems for SS and GN dislocation densities. Vacancy density was calculated from the edge component of SS dislocation density and the incremental plastic shear strain by expanding the theory of Essmann and Mughrabi, in which atomic vacancies are released by the annihilation of edge dislocations, for each slip system. The cyclic loading analysis was performed under strain-controlled with 10 cycles between a tensile process up to 0.5% nominal strain and a compressive process down to 0%. For comparison, a monotonic loading analysis was also performed. The macroscopic mechanical responses were significantly different under the two conditions, and the work hardening rate under cyclic loading was less than half that under monotonic loading. The localization of plastic strain was more pronounced in the cyclic loading deformation than in the monotonic one. The low work hardening rate for cyclic loading deformation was attributed to the low accumulation of GN dislocations due to the relaxation of the plastic shear strain gradient caused by the load reversal. The average vacancy density was twice higher for monotonic loading deformation than for cyclic loading deformation. On the other hand, the maximum value of vacancy density was almost the same in both conditions, indicating that the cyclic loading deformation was more localized.
Shinnosuke Yanagawa, Ikumu Watanabe
pp. 333-341
Abstract
Yield-point phenomena in Ferrite–Pearlite duplex steels were investigated using multi-scale computational simulations. In this multi-scale simulations, stress–strain relationship of Ferrite phase was characterized by an elastoplastic constitutive model considering yield-drop behavior and its material constants were determined by minimizing residual error between a computational simulation and experiment of tensile test, where yield-point phenomenon in a tensile test of Ferrite steel was reproduced. Using the determined material response of Ferrite phase, finite element analyses of Ferrite–Pearlite duplex microstructure were performed to examine its macroscopic material response and its microscopic deformation mechanism. Besides, finite element analyses of tensile test based on the numerical results of microscopic finite element analysis were conducted to reproduce yield-point phenomena in Ferrite–Pearlite duplex steels.
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