Grain Orientation and Interface Character Distribution During Austenite Precipitation Phase in Duplex Stainless Steel
Ting XU1, Xiao-ying FANG1,*(), Yan-li ZHU1, Ming WANG1, Wen-hong YIN1, Hong GUO2
1 School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, Shandong, China 2 Center of Testing and Analysis, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, Shandong, China
The grain orientation and the interface character distribution were investigated for γ precipitation from the supersaturated α during aging at 1323K in duplex stainless steel by using EBSD technique and misorientation analysis based on Rodrigues-Frank (R-F) space. The results show that sharp texture and the grain boundary character distribution featured by a high population of low angle grain boundary (LAB) and a small number of twin boundaries (TBs) are produced in the γ precipitated from cold-rolled supersaturated coarse α with pre-strain of ε=2. The precipitated γ grains approximately possess K-S, N-W and Bain orientation relationship with the α matrix equally. For the unstrained α matrix of the same orientation, nearly random texture and the grain boundary character predominated by TBs are introduced in the γ precipitation after aging. Most of γ have K-S relation with the α matrix. However, twining in γ leads to the deviation from typical K-S orientation relationship. And also, one-fourth of phase boundaries along γ grains containing twins are found to obey a new orientation relationship of 35°/〈110〉 with α matrix.
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