The Limits of Strength and Toughness in Steel

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• The ideal structural steel combines high strength with excellent fracture toughness. In this paper we consider the limits of strength and toughness from two perspectives. The first perspective is theoretical. It has recently become possible to compute the ideal shear and tensile strengths of defect-free crystals. While the ferromagnetism of bcc Fe makes it a particularly difficult problem, we can estimate its limiting properties from those of similar materials. The expected behavior at the limit of strength contains many familiar features, including cleavage on {100}, <111> slip on multiple planes, "conditionally" brittle behavior at low temperature and a trend away from brittle behavior on alloying with Ni. The behavior of fcc materials at the limit of strength suggests that true cleavage will not happen in austenitic steels. The results predict an ideal cleavage stress near 10.5 GPa, and a shear strength near 6.5 GPa. The second perspective is practical: how to maximize the toughness of high-strength steel. Our discussion here is limited to the subtopic that has been the focus of research in our own group: the use of thermal treatments to inhibit transgranular brittle fracture in lath martensitic steels. The central purpose of the heat treatments described here is grain refinement, and the objective of grain refinement is to limit the crystallographic coherence length for transgranular crack propagation. There are two important sources of transgranular embrittlement: thermal (or, more properly, mechanical) embrittlement at the ductile–brittle transition, and hydrogen embrittlement from improper heat treatment or environmental attack. As we shall discuss, these embrittling mechanisms use different crack paths in lath martensitic steels and, therefore, call for somewhat different remedies.

• 社団法人 日本鉄鋼協会の論文
• 2001-06-15

著者

• Morris J.

  Department Of Materials Science And Engineering University Of California Berkeley And Center For Adv

• GUO Z.

  Departyment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Center for

• KRENN C.

  Departyment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Center for

• KIM Y.-H.

  Departyment of Materials Engineering,Hangyang University

• Krenn C.

  Departyment Of Materials Science And Engineering University Of California Berkeley And Center For Ad

• Kim Y.-h.

  Department Of Medicine Emory University

• Kim Y.-h.

  Departyment Of Materials Engineering Hangyang University

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