Superplasticity in a lean Fe-Mn-Al steel

Jeongho Han; Seok Hyeon Kang; Seung Joon Lee; Megumi Kawasaki; Han Joo Lee; Dirk Ponge; Dierk Raabe; Young Kook Lee

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00814-y

Superplasticity in a lean Fe-Mn-Al steel

Jeongho Han, Seok Hyeon Kang, Seung Joon Lee, Megumi Kawasaki, Han Joo Lee, Dirk Ponge, Dierk Raabe, Young Kook Lee

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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Superplastic alloys exhibit extremely high ductility (>300%) without cracks when tensile-strained at temperatures above half of their melting point. Superplasticity, which resembles the flow behavior of honey, is caused by grain boundary sliding in metals. Although several non-ferrous and ferrous superplastic alloys are reported, their practical applications are limited due to high material cost, low strength after forming, high deformation temperature, and complicated fabrication process. Here we introduce a new compositionally lean (Fe-6.6Mn-2.3Al, wt.%) superplastic medium Mn steel that resolves these limitations. The medium Mn steel is characterized by ultrafine grains, low material costs, simple fabrication, i.e., conventional hot and cold rolling, low deformation temperature (ca. 650 °C) and superior ductility above 1300% at 850 °C. We suggest that this ultrafine-grained medium Mn steel may accelerate the commercialization of superplastic ferrous alloys.

Original language	English
Article number	751
Journal	Nature communications
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00814-y
Publication status	Published - 2017 Dec 1

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This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (grant number: NRF-2015R1D1A1A09059936) and by the third Stage of Brain Korea 21 Plus Project in 2017. We are thankful to Dong-Hyun Lee and Professor Jae-il Jang (Hanyang University, Seoul) for their help with nano-indentation tests, and to Sang-Chul Kwon and Professor Hyo-Tae Jeong (Gangneung-wonju National University, Gang-neung) for their assistance in X-ray pole figure measurements.

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