Texture gradient evaluation of cold bent high-Mn steel plate using RADEN and RESA neutron instruments

徐 平光; Wang, Y. W.*; Su, Y. H.; 岩本 ちひろ*; Wang, H. H.*; 浜 孝之*; 柴山 由樹; 土川 雄介; Parker, J. D.*; 甲斐 哲也; et al.

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For achieving the carbon neutralization through reducing the greenhouse gas emission, the liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been widely employed as the fuel for electric power plants. As economical cryogenic steel for LNG transport and storage, high-Mn steels have been paid much attention for a high possibility to replace expensive high-Ni martensite steels and high Ni-Cr austenite steels. Its superior cryogenic toughness is thought mostly due to the high thermal stability of austenite even at the LNG storage temperature and the evident mechanical twining effect during the cryogenic deformation. Since four-point bending deformation may induce elastoplastic strain and texture gradient distribution valuable to investigate the twinning effect, it is highly expected to carry out the in-situ/ex-situ cryogenic bending deformation experiment for clarifying the shear-induced twinning mechanism. As a preliminary research, cold-bent samples of high-Mn austenite thick steel plates at room temperature were employed to evaluate the twinning-induced shear band microstructure and confirm the 2D mapping of texture gradient distribution using time-of-flight (TOF) Bragg-edge transmission imaging. Comparably, the quantitative change in triaxial strains and crystallographic texture characteristics at five different regions along the bend radius was evaluated for reference using the angle-dispersive neutron diffraction. The conventional electron backscattering diffraction (EBSD) was employed to provide the direct morphologic information of gradient microstructure of cold-bent high-Mn steel plates. The RADEN neutron transmission profiles obtained from the inner surface layer to the 1/2 thickness layer of cold bent sample show an very interesting preferred orientation charactersitics, quite similar with the density distributions of corresponding orienations of complete pole figures obtained from RESA.