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Spatially resolved texture and microstructure evolution of additively manufactured and gas gun deformed 304L stainless steel investigated by neutron diffraction and electron backscatter diffraction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2018

S. Takajo ,
D. W. Brown ,
B. Clausen ,
G. T. Gray III ,
C. M. Knapp ,
D. T. Martinez ,
C. P. Trujillo  and
S. C. Vogel
S. Takajo*
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 JFE Steel Corporation, Kurashiki 712, Japan
D. W. Brown
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
B. Clausen
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
G. T. Gray III
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
C. M. Knapp
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
D. T. Martinez
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
C. P. Trujillo
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
S. C. Vogel
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
*
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

In this study, we report the characterization of a 304L stainless steel cylindrical projectile produced by additive manufacturing. The projectile was compressively deformed using a Taylor Anvil Gas Gun, leading to a huge strain gradient along the axis of the deformed cylinder. Spatially resolved neutron diffraction measurements on the HIgh Pressure Preferred Orientation time-of-flight diffractometer (HIPPO) and Spectrometer for Materials Research at Temperature and Stress diffractometer (SMARTS) beamlines at the Los Alamos Neutron Science CEnter (LANSCE) with Rietveld and single-peak analysis were used to quantitatively evaluate the volume fractions of the α, γ, and ε phases as well as residual strain and texture. The texture of the γ phase is consistent with uniaxial compression, while the α texture can be explained by the Kurdjumov–Sachs relationship from the γ texture after deformation. This indicates that the material first deformed in the γ phase and subsequently transformed at larger strains. The ε phase was only found in volumes close to the undeformed material with a texture connected to the γ texture by the Shoji–Nishiyama orientation relationship. This allows us to conclude that the ε phase occurs as an intermediate phase at lower strain, and is superseded by the α phase when strain increases further. We found a proportionality between the root-mean-squared microstrain of the γ phase, dominated by the dislocation density, with the α volume fraction, consistent with strain-induced martensite α formation. Knowledge of the sample volume with the ε phase from the neutron diffraction analysis allowed us to identify the ε phase by electron back scatter diffraction analysis, complementing the neutron diffraction analysis with characterization on the grain level.

Keywords

electron backscatter diffractionneutron diffraction304L stainless steel
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Technical Article
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Powder Diffraction , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 2018 , pp. 141 - 146
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 2018 

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