Interstitial-Free Bake Hardening Realized by Epsilon Martensite Reverse Transformation

By investigating a metastable high-entropy alloy, we report a latent strengthening mechanism that is associated with the thermally-induced epsilon-martensite-to-austenite reverse transformation. We show this reversion-assisted hardening effect can be achieved in the same time-scale and temperature r...

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Main Authors: Wei, Shaolou (Author), Jiang, Menglei (Author), Tasan, Cemal (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-04-06T19:02:13Z.
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