It has been reported that the high toughness of ADI was due to the martensite formation at intersection of twins created by the strain in retaind austenite. As the martensite transformation at twin intersection may relate to strain rate, the effect of the strain rate on the mechanical properties of unalloyed ADI was examined in this work. Specimens were austempered at 573 K or 648 K after austenitizing at 1173 K. The strain rate was changed in 7 stages from 1.67 × 10
-2 mm/s to 8.33 × 10
-1 mm/s. These experimental results are as follows. (1) The tensile strength is not affected by the change of strain rate under the austempered treatments. (2) The elongation slightly increases in strain rate of 8.33 × 10
-1 mm/s in case of austempered at 573 K, and clearly increases above the 3.33 × 10
-1 mm/s in austempered at 648 K. (3) In the case of 573 K and 648 K austempered treatments, the retained austenite contents are about 18 % and 36 %, and after stress induced these decrease about 20 % and 30 % respectively. However no change of retained austenite contents appeares with the increase in strain rate. And very fine martensites appear in strained retain austenite. (4) In spite of some increase in elongation, tensile strength doesn't change with the increase in strain rate under this experimental condition. This reason is presumed that in the case of rapid strain rate, elongation may only increase because simple parallel twin deformation occured prior to martensite transformation at twin intersection. However, this interesting expermental result should be continued to study further.
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