% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @PHDTHESIS{Mosecker:660383, author = {Mosecker, Linda}, othercontributors = {Bleck, Wolfgang and Mayer, Joachim}, title = {{M}aterials design of high nitrogen manganese austenitic stainless {TWIP} steels for strip casting}, school = {Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen}, type = {Dissertation}, address = {Aachen}, reportid = {RWTH-2016-05336}, pages = {1 Online Ressource (91 Seiten) : Illustrationen}, year = {2016}, note = {Veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University; Dissertation, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 2016}, abstract = {High nitrogen manganese austenitic stainless TWIP steels achieve attractive mechanical properties and excellent strain hardening behavior. However, high nitrogen steel melting methods are generally associated with high pressures to enhance the nitrogen solubility in the melt. Thin strip casting offers an attractive option that not only shortens the process route but also allows the alloying with nitrogen at atmospheric pressure. In the present work, the materials design of austenitic Fe-Cr-Mn-N steels for the production by strip casting is presented. A thermodynamics based model using CALPHAD method was developed to predict and control the thermal and mechanical stability of the austenitic phase by calculating the Gibbs free energy change (ΔGγ→ε) and the stacking fault energy (SFE). The application of a non-constant composition-dependent interfacial energy, ϭγ/ε, is introduced and the effect of higher ordered interaction parameter and strain energy term on SFE is discussed. Fe-Cr-Mn-N alloys with nominal chemical composition in the range of 13-14 $wt.\%$ Cr, 20-26 $wt.\%$ Mn and 0.4-0.6 $wt.\%$ N were melted and processed by strip casting in laboratory and industrial scale. The solubility of nitrogen in the melt and the phase stability during solidification at atmospheric pressure are predicted by thermodynamic model calculations as function of balanced chromium to manganese concentration. The as-cast and cold-rolled microstructure is characterized by light optical microscopy and electron probe microanalysis to analyze the secondary dendrite arm spacing, grain size distribution and microstructure segregation. The phase distribution and deformation substructures with respect to character and location of grain and sub-grain boundaries, distribution of grain orientation and local variations in residual strain are determined by X-ray diffraction and electron back-scatter diffraction. The deformation mechanisms and mechanical properties of the investigated Fe-Cr-Mn-N alloys are discussed to depend on temperature, SFE and ordered microstructural phenomena like short range ordering (SRO). Differences in the strain hardening behavior of the as-cast and cold-rolled/recrystallized strip material are explained by the change in grain size, differences in the density and distribution of the dislocation substructure and the critical stress for the onset of deformation twinning. The flow behavior is homogenous and no serrations in the flow stress occur during tensile deformation in the temperature range from -150 to 250°C. The absence of dynamic strain aging is attributed to the type of SRO and the activation energy for reorientation of the point defects, rather than the SFE. The RT SFE of the examined steels is determined between 24-31 mJ/m² which defines mechanical twinning as the dominant secondary deformation mechanism, resulting in high work hardening rate and formability. The occurrence of high temperature deformation twinning at 250°C is explained by the effect of nitrogen on the dislocation arrangements and the probability of Cr-N SRO. It is assumed that with increasing the interstitial nitrogen content the effect of SFE on the activity and character of mechanical twinning becomes less dominant, and the temperature sensitivity of the yield strength within the thermal and athermal temperature range increases. In comparison to conventional high-Mn TWIP steels, the investigated high nitrogen Fe-Cr-Mn alloys exhibit extra-ordinary high flow stress and strain hardening behavior, with YS up to 660 MPa and total elongation A50 of 47 $\%,$ meeting the requirements for application in automobile industry.}, cin = {522110 / 520000}, ddc = {620}, cid = {$I:(DE-82)522110_20140620$ / $I:(DE-82)520000_20140620$}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11}, urn = {urn:nbn:de:hbz:82-rwth-2016-053366}, url = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/660383}, }