Effects of microstructural variables on the deformation behaviour of dual-phase steel
Abstract
An expression for the stress of martensite in dual-phase steel was developed, which shows the interdependence of the stress of martensite and strain hardening in the ferrite matrix and the contribution of microstructural variables (the volume fraction of martensite fm, ferrite grain size df, and martensite particle size dm). The onset of plastic deformation of martensite in dual-phase steel was predicted to depend on its yield strength and the microstructural variables, and this was verified by the modified Crussard-Jaoul analysis. It was found that for this dual-phase steel, refining the grain size and increasing fm increase the flow stress and raise the strain hardening rate at low strains, but little affect the strain hardening rate at high strains. The effect of the ferrite grain size on the flow stress of this dual-phase steel was found to obey the Hall-Petch relation, i.e. , where the Hall-Petch intersection σ0e and slope Ke are functions of strain, fm and dm. The effects of the plastic deformation of martensite and the microstructural variables on the strain hardening rate and the Hall-Petch behaviour were analysed in terms of the densities of statistically stored dislocations and geometrically necessary dislocations using the previously developed theoretical model.
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