Papers by Author: P. Pilvin

Abstract: Kinetics of deformation induced martensitic transformation in metastable austenitic AISI 301 steel was characterized by several techniques including classical light metallography, X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction and electron back scattered diffraction. In order to characterize the martensitic transformation, several specimens were tensile pre-deformed to 5%, 10% and 20% of plastic deformation and compared with non-deformed state. During straining, the volume fraction of α’-martensite rapidly prevails over the volume fraction of original austenite and reach the value circa 70%.