Strength Differential Effect in Martensitic Stainless Steel Under Quenching and Partitioning Heat Treatment Condition (bibtex)

by S. Dieck, M. Ecke, P. Rosemann, S. Fritsch, M. F.-X. Wagner, T. Halle

@InCollection{Dieck2019,
  author    = {Dieck, S. and Ecke, M. and Rosemann, P. and Fritsch, S. and Wagner, M. F.-X. and Halle, T.},
  title     = {Strength Differential Effect in Martensitic Stainless Steel Under Quenching and Partitioning Heat Treatment Condition},
  booktitle = {Plasticity, Damage and Fracture in Advanced Materials},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  year      = {2020},
  pages     = {35 - 42},
  abstract  = {The quenching and partitioning (Q&P) heat treatment enables a higher formability of high strength martensitic steels. Therefore it is necessary to have some metastable austenite in the microstructure, which transforms in martensite during plastic deformation (transformation induced plasticity - TRIP effect). This microstructure can be achieved by the two-step heat treatment, consisting of quenching in a way, which retains a certain amount of austenite. A subsequent low temperature annealing, the so called partitioning, stabilizes the retained austenite due to carbon diffusion. The Q&P heat treatment was investigated for the martensitic stainless steel 1.4034 (X46Cr13, AISI 420) concerning the influence of varying austenite fractions. In line with these efforts the characterization of the mechanical properties, focusing on the materials behavior under different mechanical load scenarios, were performed. Therefore quasi static tension and compression tests were carried out. Moreover, a comprehensive analysis of the microstructural evolution was performed for different stages of heat treatment, including optical microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction. The comparison of common quenching and tempering with the Q&P heat treatment verifies the extensively enhanced materials strength with good ductility whereat the formability is still acceptable. The microstructural explanation was an higher austenite fraction due to austenite retaining between the martensite laths besides the stabilizing of retained austenite. Further a strength differential effect was observed to be much higher than known for tempered martensite. Our investigations show first results and cannot clearly demonstrate the complex microstructural mechanism. Furthermore we find some interesting differences in the micromechanical behavior compared to the literature with regard to micro-cracking and no TRIP effect under compressive loading.},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-34851-9_3},
}