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Ab initio-guided design of twinning-induced plasticity steels

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The twinning-induced plasticity effect enables designing austenitic Fe-Mn-C-based steels with >70% elongation with an ultimate tensile strength >1 GPa. These steels are characterized by high strain hardening due to the formation of twins and complex dislocation substructures that dynamically reduce the dislocation mean free path. Both mechanisms are governed by the stacking-fault energy (SFE) that depends on composition. This connection between composition and substructure renders these steels ideal model materials for theory-based alloy design: Ab initio -guided composition adjustment is used to tune the SFE, and thus, the strain-hardening behavior for promoting the onset of twinning at intermediate deformation levels where the strain-hardening capacity provided by the dislocation substructure is exhausted. We present thermodynamic simulations and their use in constitutive models, as well as electron microscopy and combinatorial methods that enable validation of the strainhardening mechanisms.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Science Foundation) within the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 761 “steel–ab initio.”

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  1. Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, and RWTCH Aachen University, Germany

    Dierk Raabe

  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany

    Franz Roters & Jörg Neugebauer

  3. National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

    Ivan Gutierrez-Urrutia

  4. Department of Computational Materials Design, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany

    Tilmann Hickel

  5. Steel Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

    Wolfgang Bleck

  6. RWTH Aachen University, Germany

    Jochen M. Schneider

  7. Vanderbilt University, USA

    James E. Wittig

  8. Central Facility for Electron Microscopy, RWTH Aachen University, and Ernst Ruska-Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

    Joachim Mayer

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Raabe, D., Roters, F., Neugebauer, J. et al. Ab initio-guided design of twinning-induced plasticity steels. MRS Bulletin 41, 320–325 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2016.63

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