Elsevier, Progress in Natural Science: Materials International, 1(24), p. 50-55, 2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnsc.2014.01.004
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A ductile and super strong nanostructured twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) steels were fabricated by cold rolling and recovery treatment. This strong and ductile nanostructured alloy can be used for the anti-intrusion part of body-in-white. Cold rolling was used to produce intensive nano-twins so that the microstructure was greatly refined. Recovery is employed to anneal dislocations for improving the ductility. A physical model is proposed to describe the relationship between the yield stress and the twin density. Furthermore, the present work also found that the activation energy for recovery is ~160 J/mol, which implies that the recovery mechanism is governed by dislocation core diffusion.