Improving toughness of medium-Mn steels after friction stir welding through grain morphology tuning
- Authors
- Jeong, Mun Sik; Park, Tak Min; Kim, Dong-Il; Fujii, Hidetoshi; Im, Hye Ji; Choi, Pyuck-Pa; Lee, Seung-Joon; Han, Jeong ho
- Issue Date
- Aug-2022
- Publisher
- Chinese Society of Metals
- Keywords
- Charpy impact test; Transformation-induced plasticity; Friction stir welding; Phase stability; Medium-Mn steel
- Citation
- Journal of Materials Science and Technology, v.118, pp.243 - 254
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- Journal Title
- Journal of Materials Science and Technology
- Volume
- 118
- Start Page
- 243
- End Page
- 254
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/170028
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jmst.2021.12.023
- ISSN
- 1005-0302
- Abstract
- This work demonstrated the viability of friction stir welding for the welding of medium-Mn steels when used as cryogenic vessel materials for liquefied gas storage. We used an intercritically annealed Fe-7Mn-0.2C-3Al (wt.%) steel with a dual-phase (α′ martensite and γR retained austenite) nanolaminate structure as a base material and systematically compared its microstructure and impact toughness after friction stir and tungsten inert gas welding. The friction stir welded specimen exhibited a large amount of γR phase owing to a relatively low temperature during welding, whereas the tungsten inert gas welded specimen comprised only the α′ phase. Furthermore, the friction stir welded steel exhibited a tuned morphology of nanoscale globular microstructure at the weld zone and did not exhibit any prior austenite grain boundary due to active recrystallization caused by deformation during welding. The preserved fraction of γR and morphological tuning in the weldment improved the impact toughness of the friction stir welded steel at low temperatures. In the steel processed by tungsten inert gas welding, the notch crack propagated rapidly along the prior austenite grain boundaries—weakened by Mn and P segregations—resulting in poor impact toughness. However, the friction stir welded steel exhibited a higher resistance against notch crack propagation due to the slow crack propagation along the ultrafine ferrite/ferrite (α/α) interfaces, damage tolerance by the active transformation-induced plasticity from the large amount of γR, and enhanced boundary cohesion by suppressed Mn and P segregations.
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