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The strain-hardening ability has been estimated using a methodologically simple engineering criterion. A simple engineering method estimates the ability of metals and alloys to strain-hardening by the hardness increase determining. The Rockwell hardness has been measured at the bottom of the indentation cup of the Brinell press indenter. The strain-hardening tendency is investigated by the “two hardness-measuring instruments” method for two austenitic manganese steels, 110G13L and 110G6L, with different austenite stability to strain martensitic transformation. This hardness estimating method can be applied without making special samples and using deforming equipment.

A study of the structure and strain-hardening ability relationship was carried out in this work for wear-resistant steels of two structural classes: high-manganese austenitic steel 110G13L and metastable austenitic chromium-manganese steel 60G9KhL. It is shown that the strain-hardening ability can be estimated using a methodologically simple engineering criterion. The criterion determines the metal tendency to harden by determining the Rockwell hardness at the bottom of the indentation cup of the Brinell press indenter

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