How to Use Duplex Stainless Steel?
Today we talk about duplex stainless steels. The latter are ferrous steels with a mixed crystalline grain structure of austenite and ferrite. How would you classify these steels? And what are their distinctive characteristics? What are two-phase steels? As mentioned earlier, the microstructure of duplex stainless steels (or two-phase) is called “hybrid”. This precisely because […]
What Is the Annealing Treatment for Austenitic Steels?
Heat-treated steel is subject to more or less complex cycles of heating, maintaining and cooling to defined temperatures. After talking in the previous posts of steel hardening, today we will examine another heat treatment: the annealing. What is the annealing heat-treatment for stainless steels? The process of annealing (intended for austenitic steel, both stainless and […]