Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1503092 Scripta Materialia 2008 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

The ductile to brittle transition temperature of a commercial martensitic steel decreases with the refinement of its microstructure. Electron backscattered diffraction analysis of the cleavage crack path shows that the packet boundaries can strongly hinder fracture propagation, and thus martensitic packets can act as the effective microstructure unit for cleavage.

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