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Deformation behavior and mechanical properties of Fe–17Cr–6Ni austenitic steel with nano/ultrafine grained microstructure and heterogeneous microstructure were studied in this investigation. With decreasing grain size, stacking fault and deformation twining gradually became the unique deformation mechanism in nano/ultrafine grained austenitic steel while in the coarse grained counterpart, deformation induced martensite transformation was always the dominant deformation mechanism. This is due to that with decreasing grain size, the critical stress for nucleating partial dislocations became smaller than that for nucleating perfect dislocations. Besides, the heterogeneous nano/ultrafine grained austenitic steel was found to possess better mechanical properties compared with homogeneous nano/ultrafine grained steel, which can be attributed to high back stress hardening and multi-stage strain hardening.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the National Key Research and Development Program 2016 YFB 0300600, 2017YFB0305100 and National Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 51474064, 51504064).
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Deng, X., Lei, C., Wang, Z. (2020). Deformation Mechanism and Mechanical Properties of Nano/Ultrafine Grained and Heterogeneous Fe–17Cr–6Ni Austenitic Steel. In: TMS 2020 149th Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36296-6_193
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