The three Fe-Mn alloys water-quenched, furnace-cooled from 1100°C or hammered after such treatments were studied by means of transmission electron microscopy, mainly on the structure of ε phase and its formation behavior in relation with the α′ phase.
The results are as follows: In water-quenched 18.3%Mn-alloy, the ε phase is plate-like lying on {111}
γ atomic planes. The ε phase generally have stacking faults of high density on (0001) planes all over the grain, as already reported in the literature, but some ε grains do not have such faults but only dislocations. The ε plate and its parent grain are oriented satisfying Syoji-Nishiyama’s orientation relationships. The α′ phase does not exist in this alloy.
In the 18.3%Mn alloy hammered after water-quenched or furnace-cooled, a small amount of the α′ phase is observed.
In water-quenched 13.5%Mn alloy, the ε and α′ phases coexist, their transformation temperatures being very close to each other. An electron microscope structure is obtained in which the formation of the α′ phase seems to have induced that of the ε phase.
9.73%Mn alloy, both in the case of the water-quenched and the furnace-cooled, consists of the α′ phase, while the ε phase is hardly observed.
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