Abstract:
The influence of the cooling rate immediately before hot working on the flow stress and microstructure of δ ferrite-austenite duplex stainless steel (25 % Cr duplex stainless steel) was investigated by a hot compression test at 1,000 – 1,200 °C with various strain rates (0.1 to 10.0 s-1). In spite of the fact that the compression temperature was the same, the condition of rapid cooling immediately before the hot compression test greatly reduced the maximum flow stress σmax and work-hardening coefficient n values. [..]
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