Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 1993, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (6): 420-425.

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EFFECT OF DYNAMIC STRAIN AGING ON LOW CYCLE FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR OF 18-8 AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL

PENG Kaiping CHEN Wenzhe OIAN Kuangwu Fuzhou University,Fuzhou,China teaching assistant,Department of Mechanical Engineering,Fuzhou University,Fuzhou 350002,China   

  • Received:1993-12-25 Revised:1993-12-25 Online:1993-12-25 Published:2009-10-10

Abstract: Studies were made of the symmetric tensile-compressive low cycle fatigue behaviour and the influence of dynamic strain aging(DSA)pre-treatment of 18-8 austenitic stainless steel. Within the testing amplitude range of strain.±0.5 % to±1.5 %,the three processes of cyclic hardening,cyclic saturation and cyclic softening were observed.In the same amplitude of strain,the peak stress of the samples pre-treated by DSA is higher than that of solid-solu- tion and cold working pre-treatment,but no remarkable differences of the fatigue lives of them were found.TEM observation shows that the uniform and stable dislocation networks with high density form after DSA pre-treatment,which increases the cyclic peak stress.The cyclic softening results from the low dislocation density and elongated cell structure with low energy.

Key words: 18-8 austenitic stainless steel, dynamic strain aging, low cycle fatigue