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J-integral Fracture Toughness of High-Mn Steels at Room and Cryogenic Temperatures

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The J-integral fracture toughness values of high-Mn steel (Fe-25 wt pct Mn) and 304L stainless steel were evaluated at 25 °C, 0 °C, − 50 °C, − 100 °C, − 163 °C, and − 196 °C using precracked compact tension (CT) specimens and compared to those determined using Charpy impact tests. The high-Mn steel exhibited excellent J-integral fracture toughness at both room and cryogenic temperatures, with values comparable to those of 304L stainless steel. However, the trend of the J-integral fracture toughness of high-Mn steel with the decreasing temperature differed from that of the Charpy impact test results. Electron backscattered diffraction and micrographic analyses suggest that the varying stacking fault energies of high-Mn steels at different temperatures affected the deformation behavior in the stretch zone at the crack tip of the CT specimen. The effect of this temperature-dependent deformation behavior of high-Mn steels on the fracture process in the J-integral test could differ from that in the Charpy impact test, resulting in the different trends in the fracture resistance with the decreasing temperature.

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This work was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (2017R1C1B5018001), and a NRF Grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (2018R1A5A6075959). This work was also supported by the Industrial Strategic Technology Development Program (No. 10062304) funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Republic of Korea).

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    Junhyeok Park, Kwanho Lee, Hyokyung Sung & Sangshik Kim

  2. The 4th R&D Institute, Agency for Defense Development, Daejeon, 34186, Republic of Korea

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  3. Steel Products Research Group, Technical Research Laboratories, POSCO, Gwangyang, 57807, Republic of Korea

    Sung Kyu Kim

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Park, J., Lee, K., Sung, H. et al. J-integral Fracture Toughness of High-Mn Steels at Room and Cryogenic Temperatures. Metall Mater Trans A 50, 2678–2689 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-019-05200-5

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