In the past decade, new steels have been developed for the automotive industry in the framework of environmental requirements. Among them, high manganese austenitic steels combining exceptional properties of strength and ductility are particularly promising. These exceptional properties stem from a fully austenitic structure at room temperature and a twinning deformation mode in addition to the classical mechanism of dislocation gliding, known as the TWinning Induced Plasticity (TWIP) effect. In this study, the cracking resistance of the Fe22Mn0.6C TWIP steel was investigated in relation to the liquid metal embrittlement (LME) phenomenon. Indeed, liquid zinc has been found to have an embrittling effect on such steels. Electro-galvanized specimens were subjected to hot tensile tests using Gleeble® thermo-mechanical simulator. The influence of different parameters such as temperature and strain rate on embrittlement was studied. The results show that this steel can be embrittled by liquid zinc within a limited range of temperature depending on strain rate. A critical stress for cracking has been defined for each embrittlement condition.
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