Research and Application Progress in Ultra-HighStrength Stainless Steel

doi:10.11900/0412.1961.2019.00453

Acta Metall Sin

2020, Vol. 56

Issue (4): 549-557 DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2019.00453

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Research and Application Progress in Ultra-HighStrength Stainless Steel

LIU Zhenbao(

),LIANG Jianxiong,SU Jie,WANG Xiaohui,SUN Yongqing,WANG Changjun,YANG Zhiyong

Division of Special Steels, Central Iron and Steel Research Institute, Beijing 100081, China

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LIU Zhenbao,LIANG Jianxiong,SU Jie,WANG Xiaohui,SUN Yongqing,WANG Changjun,YANG Zhiyong. Research and Application Progress in Ultra-HighStrength Stainless Steel. Acta Metall Sin, 2020, 56(4): 549-557.

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In the present work, the development and research on ultra-high strength stainless steels (UHSSS) have been systematically reviewed. Specifically, the focus was primarily placed on the precipitation hardening and austenite phase toughening mechanisms. And, the hydrogen-induced stress corrosion cracking (SCC) and hydrogen embrittlement (HE) behaviors of high-strength stainless steels were also retrospected. It is suggested that the future development of UHSSS is on the basis of computer-aided alloy designing system, strengthening via multiple high-coherency precipitates and toughening by filmy high-stability austenite phase. Besides, verification of the SCC and HE underlying mechanisms is vital to further optimizing the performance of UHSSS.

Key words: ultra-high strength stainless steel strengthening and toughening mechanism hydrogen embrittlement stress corrosion precipitate reverted austenite

Received: 27 December 2019

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TG142.71

Fund: National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFB0300104)

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Table 1 Chemical compositions of typical high strength stainless steels^{[13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]}

Table 2 Mechanical properties of typical high strength stainless steels^{[13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]}

Fig.1 Atom probe tomography (APT) map within a selected cube (box size is 70 nm×70 nm×240 nm) of a newly developed ultra-high strength steel aged specimenColor online

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