Influence of grain size distribution on the Hall-Petch relationship of welded structural steel
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Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing, Volume 592, pp. 28-39
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The strength of polycrystalline metals increases with a decrease in grain size according to the Hall-Petch relationship. However, heterogeneous microstructures deviate from this relationship depending on the distribution of grain sizes. This paper introduces a rule of mixtures based approach for determining the characteristic length of the microstructure for heterogeneous weld metal. The proposed grain size parameter, the volume-weighted average grain size, is measured experimentally for nine structural steel weld metals and two base materials. The weld metals are found to have a large variety of grain size distributions that are noticeably broader than those of the base material due to differences in phase contents. The results show that the volume-weighted average grain size is able to capture the influence of grain size distribution on the strength of welded structural steel. Based on the experimental results, a modified Hall-Petch relationship is formulated for the strength prediction of heterogeneous microstructures. The modified relationship is also found to be applicable to data from the literature.Description
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Lehto, P, Remes, H, Saukkonen, T, Hänninen, H & Romanoff, J 2014, 'Influence of grain size distribution on the Hall-Petch relationship of welded structural steel', Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing, vol. 592, pp. 28-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2013.10.094