Enhanced work-hardening behavior and mechanical properties in ultrafine-grained steels with large-fractioned metastable austenite

Ultrafine-grained duplex manganese-bearing steels fabricated by quenching and annealing demonstrated excellent combinations of tensile elongation of 31–44% and tensile strength of 1–1.5 GPa and a three-stage work-hardening behavior. Their enhanced mechanical properties and work-hardening behavior were explained by their dynamic composition due to the strain induced phase transformation from large-fractioned austenite (>30%). It was suggested that the austenite volume fraction and its mechanical stability is the key to understand the phase transformation induced deformation behavior.

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