Authors: A DehghanManshadi P D Hodgson
Publish Date: 2008/09/01
Volume: 43, Issue: 18, Pages: 6272-6277
Abstract
This work evaluates the effect of coexistence of a large volume fraction of δferrite on the hot deformation and dynamic recrystallization DRX of austenite using comparative hot torsion tests on AISI 304 austenitic and 2205 duplex stainless steels The comparison was performed under similar deformation conditions ie temperature and strain rate and also under similar ZenerHollomon Z values The torsion data were combined with electron backscatter diffraction EBSD analysis to study the microstructure development The results imply a considerable difference between DRX mechanisms austenite grain sizes and also DRX kinetics of two steels Whereas austenitic stainless steel shows the start of DRX at very low strains and then development of that microstructure based on the necklace structure the DRX phenomena in the austenite phase of duplex structure does not proceed to a very high fraction Also the DRX kinetics in the austenitic steel are much higher than the austenite phase of the duplex steel The results suggest that at a similar deformation condition the DRX grain size of austenitic steel is almost three times larger than the DRX grains of austenite phase in duplex steel Similarly the ratio of DRX grain size in the austenitic to the duplex structure at the same Z values is about 15
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