Abstract
Micro-tensile tests were performed using single- and twinned bi-crystals with and without hydrogen pre-charging in a metastable austenitic steel to elucidate the occurrence of hydrogen-induced quasi-cleavage. The hydrogen-charged specimens exhibited in the stress–strain behaviour a stress decrease in the plateau region after yielding. In this stage, a lamellar microstructure of martensite was formed within the parent austenite. Fracture occurred as quasi-cleavage along the habit planes of the martensite lamellae. A mechanism is proposed where the excess hydrogen generated by the martensitic transformation of hydrogen-containing austenite concentrates into the retained austenite between the martensite laths, promoting the localised deformation to fracture.
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