Quenching and partitioning: A fundamentally new process to create high strength trip sheet microstructures

Materials Science and Technology 2003 Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 505-522

  Speer, J G ^a   Streicher, A M ^a   Matlock, D K ^a   Rizzo, F ^b   Krauss, G ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; MARTENSITIC TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS; TOUGHNESS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

MOLE FRACTION; MULTICOMPONENT SYSTEMS;

STEEL SHEET;

EID: 1542317506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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