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The effect of grain boundary character distribution on the mechanical properties at different strain rates of a 316L stainless steel

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Grain boundary engineering was applied to a 316L stainless steel. The proportion of low-Σ coincidence site lattice boundaries was increased to more than 70% in the GBE specimen. The effect of grain boundary character distribution formed through GBE on the mechanical properties at different strain rates (4 × 10−2, 4 × 10−3, 4 × 10−4, 4 × 10−5 s−1) was studied by tensile test at room temperature. The results showed that the GBE specimens exhibited higher uniform elongation than the non-GBE specimens. With the strain rate decreasing, the uniform elongations of GBE specimens had a greater extent of increase. The local misorientation, average Schmid factor (\( \overline{m} \)) and Taylor factor (M) in GBE and non-GBE specimens at uniform plastic deformation area were studied by using electron backscatter diffraction. The results indicate that the micro-zone strain was more uniformly distributed and the activation process of the slip system was apt to happen in the GBE specimens.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant Number 51671122).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, People’s Republic of China

    Zhen Zhuo, Shuang Xia, Qin Bai & Bangxin Zhou

  2. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, People’s Republic of China

    Shuang Xia & Bangxin Zhou

  3. Key Laboratory for Microstructures, Shanghai University, P.O. Box 129, 99 Shangda Road, Shanghai, 200444, People’s Republic of China

    Qin Bai

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Zhuo, Z., Xia, S., Bai, Q. et al. The effect of grain boundary character distribution on the mechanical properties at different strain rates of a 316L stainless steel. J Mater Sci 53, 2844–2858 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-017-1695-0

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