Large deformation and mechanical effects of damage in aged duplex stainless steel

International audienceThe lattice strains in large tensile deformations, up to the fracture of the sample were measured using neutron TOF method. For the first time, the range of large deformation was studied measuring lattice strain in the deformation neck and using special correction for macrostress value. It was found that during large plastic deformation the lattice stresses arise almost linearly with the macrostress value. The relaxation of elastic strains in some groups of ferritic grains (corresponding to reflections 211 and 200) can be connected with initiation of damage process in the ferritic phase

Study of stresses in texture components using neutron diffraction

In this work a new method for analysis of neutron diffraction results obtained during “in situ” tensile load is proposed and tested. The methodology is based on the measurements of lattice strains during “in situ” tensile test for several hkl reflections and for different orientations of the sample with respect to the scattering vector. As the result the full stress tensor for preferred texture orientations in function of applied stress can be determined with help of crystallite group method. The experimental data are presented and compared with self-consistent model calculations performed for groups of grains corresponding to the measured hkl reflections. © 2014, Trans Tech Publications