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A study of cavitation during superplastic tensile straining of two microduplex steels has been made using density measurements and quantitative optical metallography. The steels were of basically similar composition with the exception of a trace addition of boron made to one alloy. During deformation cavities formedα/γ boundaries and matrix-carbide interfaces; the growth and coalescence of these cavities led to failure. Density measurements showed that the extent of cavitation increased with increasing strain and decreasing strain-rate, but the level of cavitation was reduced by the presence of boron. A time dependence of overall void volume of 1.4 to 2.0 was observed. Quantitative metallographic studies of the nucleation and growth contributions to the overall rate of void formation showed that boron inhibited each of these processeS. However, both the nucleation rate and the magnitude of the time exponent of void volume increase suggested that a substantial number of voids grew from pre-existing nuclei which were probably present as non-coherent carbide-matrix interfaces.
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Humphries, C.W., Ridley, N. Cavitation in alloy steels during superplastic deformation. J Mater Sci 9, 1429–1435 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00552928
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