Residual Stress Effect on the Delayed Fracture of Twinning-Induced Plasticity Steels

Residual stress effect of the deep drawn TWIP steel on delayed fracture was investigated. Microstructural features of the TWIP steels did not change after stress relief annealing, while the elastic lattice strain dropped to 0.0007. Delayed fracture of the drawn TWIP steel occurred after 203 hours of HCl immersion testing, but did not occur in the annealed one. It is clear that residual stress after the drawing is the primary reason for the delayed fracture of TWIP steels.