Abstract
The influence of cold roll reduction history on grain boundary network development in an austenitic stainless steel has been investigated. A dominant effect of the final thermomechanical process cycles on grain boundary character development was observed. The application of low-strain processing cycles with 5% cold reduction was found to increase the fraction of Σ3 and Σ3-related variants on solution annealing. Two-step processing treatments with final reductions between 15% and 82% showed no significant differences to their single-step processed equivalents. © 2008 Acta Materialia Inc.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 554-557 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Scripta Materialia |
Volume | 59 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2008 |
Keywords
- Coincidence site lattice grain boundaries
- Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD)
- Grain boundary engineering
- Stainless steel
- Thermomechanical processing