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Bulk nanocrystalline stainless steel fabricated by equal channel angular pressing

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Bulk fully nanocrystalline grain structures were successfully obtained in ultralow carbon stainless steel by means of equal channel angular pressing at room temperature. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and high-resolution TEM investigations indicated that two types of nanostructures were formed: nanocrystalline strain-induced martensite (body-centered cubic structure) with a mean grain size of 74 nm and nanocrystalline austenite (face-centered cubic structure) with a size of 31 nm characterized by dense deformation twins. The results about the formation of fully nanocrystalline grain structures in stainless steel suggested that a low stacking fault energy is exceptionally profitable for producing nanocrystalline materials by equal channel angular pressing.

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  1. Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, People’s Republic of China

    C. X. Huang, S. D. Wu, G. Y. Li & S. X. Li

  2. Central Iron and Steel Research Institute, Beijing, 100081, People’s Republic of China

    Y. L. Gao & G. Yang

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Huang, C.X., Gao, Y.L., Yang, G. et al. Bulk nanocrystalline stainless steel fabricated by equal channel angular pressing. Journal of Materials Research 21, 1687–1692 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2006.0214

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