Low-Carbon-Emission Hot Stam**: A Review from the Perspectives of Steel Grade, Heating Process, and Part Design

Z Hou, Y Liu, Q He, J Wang, J Min - Automotive Innovation, 2023 - Springer
Hot stam** steels have become a crucial strategy for achieving lightweighting and
enhancing crash safety in the automotive industry over the past two decades. However, the …

Nanoscale precipitation and ultrafine retained austenite induced high strength-ductility combination in a newly designed low carbon Cu-bearing medium-Mn steel

B Hu, X Rong, C Tian, Y Yu, H Guo, RDK Misra… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A novel low carbon Cu-bearing medium-Mn steel was designed and subjected to intercritical
annealing (IA) and tempering (IAT). The yield strength and uniform elongation significantly …

Room temperature quenching and partitioning (RT-Q&P) processed steel with chemically heterogeneous initial microstructure

G Gu, JH Kim, HH Lee, A Zargaran, M Koo… - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microstructure heterogeneity has been regarded as being detrimental in obtaining reliable
mechanical performance of steels. However, in the present study, we demonstrated that a …

Bake-partitioning in a press-hardening steel

ZR Hou, T Opitz, XC **ong, XM Zhao, HL Yi - Scripta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Bake-partitioning, a process integrating paint-baking of car-body assembling to induce
carbon partitioning into austenite, has been proposed for enhancing the ductility of press …

Heat treatment design for a QP steel: Effect of partitioning temperature

M Carpio, J Calvo, O García, JP Pedraza, JM Cabrera - Metals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Designing a new family of advanced high-strength steels (AHSSs) to develop automotive
parts that cover early industry needs is the aim of many investigations. One of the candidates …

Processing variants in medium-Mn steels

J Speer, R Rana, D Matlock, A Glover, G Thomas… - Metals, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper highlights some recent efforts to extend the use of medium-Mn steels for
applications other than intercritically batch-annealed steels with exceptional ductility (and …

Insight into hydrogen effect on a duplex medium-Mn steel revealed by in-situ nanoindentation test

X Lu, Y Ma, M Zamanzade, Y Deng, D Wang… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Medium-Mn steel is the newly developed steel acting as a promising candidate of the 3rd-
generation advanced high strength steels. In the present study, the effect of hydrogen on the …

Effect of rapid heating on microstructure and tensile properties of a novel coating-free oxidation-resistant press-hardening steel

Z Hou, J Min, J Wang, Q Lu, Z He, Z Chai, W Xu - Jom, 2021 - Springer
We explored the feasibility and benefits of rapidly heating (at over 100° C/s) a novel coating-
free oxidation-resistant press-hardening steel (PHS). Experiments indicated that a total …

Effect of quenching and partitioning treatment on low carbon medium manganese alloyed steels-A short review

S Mishra, RP Dalai - Materials Today: Proceedings, 2021 - Elsevier
The present review work is on the effect of the quenching-partitioning heat treatment
technique on the alloyed medium Mn steel. Medium Mn steel with alloying elements gives …

Extra work hardening in room-temperature quenching and partitioning medium Mn steel enabled by intercritical annealing

BB He, S Pan, MX Huang - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2020 - Elsevier
The present work applies an intercritical annealing process on a room-temperature
quenching and partitioning (RT Q&P) medium Mn steel. It is found that the intercritical …