The effect of alloy chemistry and strain rate on the Md30 temperature of metastable austenitic stainless steels

The work covered in this thesis provides a comprehensive discussion of the transformation behaviour of Type 304 metastable stainless steels with small' variations in alloy composition. The study focuses mainly on the austenite stability with respect to alloy composition, rate of deformation and temperature. To achieve these objectives, uniaxial tensile tests at 0.3 true strain were performed at low and high strain rates (10-3s-1 and 3 x 10-2s-1 respectively), in the temperature range of -60 to 55°C under isothermal testing conditions.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Centre for Materials Engineering

Year dc:date.issued

1994

Author dc:creator

• Papo, Jones Malesela

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Knutsen, Robert D

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14045

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/14045