The TRIP effect enhances the work hardening behavior of steel and provides high strength and high ductility. In the design of TRIP‐assisted steel components based on numerical simulation, the TRIP effect must be considered to ensure a reliable stress analysis. The influence of the TRIP effect on the properties of the 1.4301 austenitic stainless steel was studied experimentally and numerically in order to evaluate the ability of a phase transformation model to quantitatively describe the TRIP effect for various loading conditions. Uniaxial tensile tests were carried out at different strain rates. During plastic deformation stress increased significantly indicating phase transformation. The martensite volume fraction was determined “in situ” using a ferritescope. The influence of temperature on the martensite formation was analyzed at different strain rates using a thermo camera. The experimentally characterized deformation behavior of the tested steel was simulated using a model based on Olson and Cohen approach, which was implemented as UHARD subroutine in the ABAQUS software. The phase transformation was simulated for two different specimen geometries under quasi‐static conditions.
A microstructural model for flow curve and failure modeling based on the representative volume element (RVE) approach is developed for high‐Mn steels. The polycrystalline structure is generated by discrete Voronoi tessellation. Physically based material models for mechanical twinning and the ε‐martensite phase transformation are implemented for describing the hardening behavior. A ductile damage model based on the multiaxial state of strain calculates the fracture and failure. Uniaxial tensile tests were carried out for the steel 22Mn0.6C with varying grain size and for a temperature range of 123–423 K. Experimental results are in good agreement with the calculated RVE models.
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