Austenitic stainless steels are employed in many industrial fields, due to their excellent
corrosion resistance, easy formability and weldability. However, their low hardness, poor …

Surface engineering of stainless steels using thermochemical treatments at low
temperatures has been the subject of intensive research for enhancing the surface hardness …

Solid solution strengthening remains the basis for many industrial alloys, yet chemical short-
range order (CSRO) can also play a significant role in the strengthening of alloys with …

The effective strategy for structural steel with excellent tolerance of impurities is to increase
solidification rate to prevent the formation of segregation and intermetallic during fabrication …

The hydrogen embrittlement behavior of C-doped and CN co-doped non-equiatomic
FeMnCoCr high-entropy alloys were investigated by slow strain rate tensile tests (1× 10− 5 …

The expanded austenite (γ N) produced by low-temperature nitriding of austenitic stainless
steels with a Cr content of 18–20 at% is conventionally regarded as a nitrogen …

To improve the surface properties of austenitic stainless steels, a thick S-phase layer was
prepared by using a novel critical temperature nitriding (CTN) process. The properties of the …

While the mechanically-induced martensitic transformation and transformation-induced
plasticity (TRIP) effects have various known benefits, transformation of blocky martensite can …

The introduction of inhibitors containing nitrogen has demonstrated its efficacy in the
fabrication of high-performance cemented carbides. Nevertheless, the thermal instability of …

Experimentally and theoretically, the basic structures of disordered expanded austenite, γ N,
and ordered expanded austenite, γ'N, have been confirmed to consist of Cr-N short-range …