Cyclic deformation of advanced high-strength steels : mechanical behavior and microstructural analysis
Hilditch, Timothy B., Timokhina, Ilana B., Robertson, Leigh T., Pereloma, Elena V. and Hodgson, Peter D. 2009, Cyclic deformation of advanced high-strength steels : mechanical behavior and microstructural analysis, Metallurgical and materials transactions A : physical metallurgy and materials science, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 342-353.
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Cyclic deformation of advanced high-strength steels : mechanical behavior and microstructural analysis
Metallurgical and materials transactions A : physical metallurgy and materials science
Volume number
40
Issue number
2
Start page
342
End page
353
Total pages
12
Publisher
Springer New York LLC
Place of publication
New York, N.Y.
Publication date
2009-02
ISSN
1073-5623 1543-1940
Summary
The fatigue properties of multiphase steels are an important consideration in the automotive industry. The different microstructural phases present in these steels can influence the strain life and cyclic stabilized strength of the material due to the way in which these phases accommodate the applied cyclic strain. Fully reversed strain-controlled low-cycle fatigue tests have been used to determine the mechanical fatigue performance of a dual-phase (DP) 590 and transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) 780 steel, with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) used to examine the deformed microstructures. It is shown that the higher strain life and cyclic stabilized strength of the TRIP steel can be attributed to an increased yield strength. Despite the presence of significant levels of retained austenite in the TRIP steel, both steels exhibited similar cyclic softening behavior at a range of strain amplitudes due to comparable ferrite volume fractions and yielding characteristics. Both steels formed low-energy dislocation structures in the ferrite during cyclic straining.