The static recrystallization of 316LN austenitic stainless steel was studied by double-pass hot compression tests on a Gleeble 3500 thermomechanical simulator. The specimens were compressed at the deformation tempera- tures of 950, 1050, 1150 ℃, strain rates of 0.01, 0.1, 1 s^- 1, strains of 0.1, 0.15, 0.2, and intervals of 1-100 s. The results show that the volume fraction of static recrystallization of 316LN increases with the increase of deforma- tion temperature, strain rate, strain and interval, which indicates that static recrystallization occurs easily under the conditions of higher deformation temperature, higher strain rate and larger strain. Deformation temperature has sig- nificant influence on static recrystallization of 316LN. The volume fraction of static recrystallization could easily reach 1000% at higher deformation temperatures. By microstructure analysis, it can be concluded that the larger the volume fraction of static recrystallization, the more obvious the grain refinement. The static recrystallization activation energy of 317 882 J/mol and the exponent n of 0.46 were obtained. The static recrystallization kinetics was established. The predicted volume fraction of static recrystallization is in good agreement with the experimental results.
JIN MiaoLU BoLIU Xin-gangGUO HuanJI Hai-pengGUO Bao-feng
