title: Room temperature texturing of austenite/ferrite steel by electropulsing.
abstract: The work reports an experimental observation on crystal rotation in a duplex (austenite + ferrite) steel induced by the electropulsing treatment at ambient temperature, while the temperature rising due to ohmic heating in the treatment was negligible. The results demonstrate that electric current pulses are able to dissolve the initial material's texture that has been formed in prior thermomechanical processing and to produce an alternative texture. The results were explained in terms of the instability of an interface under perturbation during pulsed electromigation.
authors.affiliation: International Digital Laboratory, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rahnama
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering and Innovation, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Rongshan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Qin