is an open access repository that collects the work of Arts et Métiers ParisTech researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. In situ tensile tests were performed at room temperature on a ferrite-cementite steel specifically designed for this study. The evolution of the average stress in ferrite during loading was analyzed by Xray diffraction. Lattice strain measurements were performed with synchrotron ring diffraction in both ferrite and cementite. These in situ tests were complemented by macroscopic tensile and reversible tensile-compression tests to study the Bauschinger effect. In order to reproduce stresses in ferrite and cementite particles, a recently developed micromechanical Internal Length Mean Field (ILMF) model based on a generalized self-consistent scheme is applied. In this designed ferrite-cementite steel, the third ''phase'' of the model represents finite intermediate ''layers'' in ferrite due to large geometrically necessary dislocation (GND) densities around cementite particles. The assumed constant thickness of the layers is calibrated thanks to the obtained experimental data. The ILMF model is validated by realistic estimates of the Bauschinger stress and the large difference between mean stresses in ferrite and in cementite phases. This difference cannot be reproduced by classic two-phase homogenization schemes without intermediate GND layers.
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