Steels for bearings

Dual-phase (DP) steel is the flagship of advanced high-strength steels, which were the first among various candidate alloy systems to find application in weight-reduced automotive components. On the one hand, this is a metallurgical success story: Lean alloying and simple thermomechanical treatment enable use of less material to accomplish more performance while complying with demanding environmental and economic constraints. On the other hand, the enormous literature on DP steels demonstrates the immense complexity of microstructure physics in multiphase alloys: Roughly 50 years after the first reports on ferrite-martensite steels, there are still various open scientific questions. Fortunately, the last decades witnessed enormous advances in the development of enabling experimental and simulation techniques, significantly improving the understanding of DP steels. This review provides a detailed account of these improvements, focusing specifically on (a) microstructure evolution during processing, (b) exp...

An Overview of Dual-Phase Steels: Advances in Microstructure-Oriented Processing and Micromechanically Guided Design

Mathematical modelling of transformation plasticity in steels II: Coupling with strain hardening phenomena

Following a review of the processing of functionally graded metals and metal-ceramic composites in Part 1; this Part 2 of the two part series focuses on the thermomechanical behaviour. The paper begins with an overview of the fundamentals of thermoelastic and thermoplastic deformation in metal-ceramic composites. Various approaches, including the rule of mixture approximations, mean field theories, crystal plasticity models, discrete dislocation models, and continuum finite element formulations of the constitutive phases of the composites, are discussed, and the significance and limitations of these approaches are highlighted. Issues specific to the thermomechanical analyses of graded materials are then addressed. It is reasoned that the introduction of a new length scale to the problem due to compositional gradients inevitably calls for detailed micromechanical analyses of the size, shape, continuity, and spatial dispersions of the constituent phases of graded metal-ceramic composites. Models for...

K. Kuroki

Papers

Tensile deformation of two-ductile-phase alloys: Flow curves of α-γ FeCrNi alloys

On the average internal stresses in each constituent phase in plastically deformed two-ductile-phase alloys