The austenitic stainless steel 316L has been compared to duplex stainless steels to be able to highlight a choice of material for manufacturing of spare tanks used for cooling water at nuclear power stations on the Swedish west coast. In this report 316L and the duplex stainless steels 2205, 2304 and LDX 2404 have been compared according to corrosion resistance, strength, manufacturing aspects and prices. The steels arranged by increasing corrosion resistance: 316L < 2304 < LDX 2404 < 2205. The steels arranged by increasing strength (considering the thickness of the plates needed for construction): 316L < 2304 < LDX 2404 and 2205. The steels arranged by increasing price/tank: 2304 < LDX 2404 < 2205 < 316L. One of the duplex stainless steels is recommended rather than the austenitic stainless steel 316L. In terms of price 2304 is preferable to 2205 and LDX 2404. When it comes to corrosion resistance 2205 is superior to 2304 and can sometimes be considered as unnecessary good and therefore not relevant for this application.

This thesis is devoted to the numerical investigation of mechanical behavior of Dual phase (DP) steels. Such grade of advanced high strength steels (AHSS) is favorable to the automotive industry due the unique properties such as high strength and ductility with low finished cost. Many experimental and numerical studies have been done to achieve the optimized behavior of DP steels by controlling their microstructure. Experiments are costly and time consuming so in recent years numerical tools are utilized to help the metallurgist before doing experiments. Most of the numerical studies are based on classical (local) constitutive models where no material length scale parameters are incorporated in the model. Although these models are proved to be very effective in modeling the material behavior in the large scales but they fail to address some critical phenomena which are important for our goals. First, they fail to address the size effect phenomena which materials show at microstructural scale. This means that materials show stronger behavior at small scales compared to large scales. Another issue with classical models is the mesh size dependency in modeling the softening behavior of materials. This means that in the finite element context (FEM) the results will be mesh size dependent and no converged solution exist upon mesh refinement. Thereby by applying the classical (local) models one my loose the accuracy on measuring the strength and ductility of DP steels. Among the non-classical (nonlocal) models, gradient-enhanced plasticity models which consider the effect of neighboring point on the behavior of one specific point are proved to be numerically effective and versatile tools to accomplish the two concerns mentioned above. So in this thesis a gradient-enhanced plasticity model which incorporates both the energetic and dissipative material length scales is derived based on the laws of thermodynamics. This model also has a consistent yield-like function for the interface which is an essential part of the higher-order gradient theories. The main issue with utilizing these theories is the implementation which limits the application of these theories for modeling the real problems. Here a straightforward implementation method based on the classical FEM and Meshless method will be proposed which due to its simplicity it can be applied for many problems. The application of the developed model and implementation will be shown on removing the mesh size dependency and capturing the size effect in microstructure level of dual phase steels.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T12:52:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T13:57:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / A difração de raios X e de elétrons retroespalhados, em escalas distintas, foram aplicadas para acompanhar mudanças microestruturais em dois aços ferríticos baixo carbono (2%Si e ABNT 1006), observando-se o desenvolvimento da textura nas etapas de laminação a frio (skin-pass) e recozimento a 760 oC. Para ambos os aços, os resultados permitiram afirmar que o fenômeno que ocorre após a laminação por skin-pass e tratamento térmico, nas condições deste trabalho, é a recristalização primária. A aplicação do skin-pass criou mais discordâncias em grãos com baixo fator de Taylor por sofrerem mais deformações. Observou-se a nucleação e crescimento de grãos em regiões de grande densidade de células de discordâncias. A presença do silício atrasou a recuperação favorecendo o aumento de subcontornos. Não foi observado o crescimento anormal de grãos, nem em função da presença de grãos Goss. Os contornos CSL não garantiram o crescimento do grão. Núcleos de crescimento de grãos deram origem a grãos com orientações distintas, indicando que o crescimento de grãos não dependeu da existência prévia de grãos com as orientações desenvolvidas, demonstrando que o crescimento anormal de grãos não está relacionado necessariamente com os grãos Goss. / Tese (Doutoramento) / IPEN/T / Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares - IPEN/CNEN-SP