Intercritical annealing to achieve a positive strain-rate sensitivity of mechanical properties and suppression of macroscopic plastic instabilities in multi-phase medium-Mn steels.

This study investigates the high strain-rate tensile properties of a cold-rolled medium-Mn steel (Fe-12Mn-3Al-0.05C % in mass fraction) designed to have a multi-phase microstructure and positive strain-rate sensitivity. At the intercritical annealing temperature of 585 °C, increasing the annealing time from 0.

Toward development of optimum specimen designs and modeling of in-plane uniaxial compression testing of aluminum alloy 2024 and AISI 1008 steel sheet material.

Tension-compression testing is commonly conducted to understand and predict springback during a stamping process. However, large strains are generally difficult to achieve during the in-plane compression portion of the test. Proper specimen design and control of frictional forces are necessary for obtaining large strains.

INFLUENCE OF MATERIAL MODELS ON PREDICTING THE FIRE BEHAVIOR OF STEEL COLUMNS.

Finite-element (FE) analysis was used to compare the high-temperature responses of steel columns with two different stress-strain models: the Eurocode 3 model and the model proposed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The comparisons were made in three different phases. The first phase compared the critical buckling temperatures predicted using forty seven column data from five different laboratories.

Rate effects on transformation kinetics in a metastable austenitic stainless steel.

In this study, the effects of strain rate on the mechanical properties and the strain-induced austenite-to-martensite transformation in type 201 austenitic stainless steel (SS201) were investigated. This grade was selected as a low-cost stainless steel with good lightweighting potential for automotive applications. The material was tested in tension at a quasi-static rate (5×10 s), two low-intermediate rates (10 s and 10 s), and a high rate (5×10 s).