Effect of Temperature, Strain rate, Manganese and Carbon Content on flow Behavior of three Ternary Fe‐Mn‐C (Fe‐Mn23‐C0.3, Fe‐Mn23‐C0.6, Fe‐Mn28‐C0.3) High‐Manganese Steels

Abstract

Abstract In this work compression tests were performed to characterize the flow behavior of three different high manganese austenitic steels (HMS) in dependence of temperature (300–1200 °C) and strain rate (0.1‐10 s −1 ). True stress‐true strain curves were calculated from the experimental data. Temperature compensation was applied to remove the effects of adiabatic heating. At 300 °C the influence of strain rate is small but rapidly increases with temperature. DRX can be observed above 1100 °C for all HMS with 23 wt% Mn starting from the smaller strain rates. Higher Mn contents seem to promote DRX which occurs first for a 28 wt% Mn steel at 1000°C. While an increasing Mn content decreases the maximum flow stress at smaller temperatures, the opposite is found at temperatures above 700 °C. Carbon influences the stress‐strain curves mainly at temperatures below 700 °C as it raises the maximum stress levels. At temperatures above 1100 °C all three investigated HMS show similar flow curves. By increasing the temperature from 300 °C to 1200 °C the initial flow stresses are reduced by a factor of ten. The maximum flow stress levels are decreased by a factor of eight (Fe‐Mn28‐C0.3), ten (Fe‐Mn23C0.3) and eleven (Fe‐Mn23C0.6).