<p>This study characterises the effects of crystal orientation on the evolution of austenite decomposition to ferrite/martensite in AISI-304 stainless steel, induced by exposure to gallium ions with a focused ion beam. Samples were exposed to the beam multiple times and imaged by electron backscatter diffraction before and after successive exposures, with the data aggregated by orientation clustering to derive insights into the effects of orientation on phase change processes. Propensity to decomposition and produced surface morphologies were observed to have a strong dependence on orientation. Three distinct orientation-based transformation behaviours were observed: grains with beam orientations close to the <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$\langle 1 0 0\rangle \gamma$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <mrow> <mo stretchy="false">⟨</mo> <mn>100</mn> <mo stretchy="false">⟩</mo> <mi>γ</mi> </mrow> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation> and <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$\langle 1 1 0\rangle \gamma$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <mrow> <mo stretchy="false">⟨</mo> <mn>110</mn> <mo stretchy="false">⟩</mo> <mi>γ</mi> </mrow> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation> axes remained untransformed or become amorphised; grains with beam orientations close to the <InlineEquation ID="IEq3"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$\langle 1 1 1\rangle \gamma$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <mrow> <mo stretchy="false">⟨</mo> <mn>111</mn> <mo stretchy="false">⟩</mo> <mi>γ</mi> </mrow> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation> axis were partially transformed to non-contiguous products at various absolute orientations with beam orientations close to the <InlineEquation ID="IEq4"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$\langle 1 1 0\rangle \alpha$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <mrow> <mo stretchy="false">⟨</mo> <mn>110</mn> <mo stretchy="false">⟩</mo> <mi>α</mi> </mrow> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation> axis; and grains with beam orientations not close to any of the three principal axes were fully transformed to a single contiguous product with beam orientations close to the <InlineEquation ID="IEq5"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$\langle 1 0 0\rangle \alpha$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <mrow> <mo stretchy="false">⟨</mo> <mn>100</mn> <mo stretchy="false">⟩</mo> <mi>α</mi> </mrow> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation> axis. Grains were not produced close to the <InlineEquation ID="IEq6"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$\langle 1 1 1\rangle \alpha$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <mrow> <mo stretchy="false">⟨</mo> <mn>111</mn> <mo stretchy="false">⟩</mo> <mi>α</mi> </mrow> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation> axis in any case.</p>

On the orientation dependence of ion-induced phase transformations in austenitic stainless steel

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2026年2月25日

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James Whiteside,
Mark J. Whiting,
David C. Cox,
Gerhard Hobler

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This study characterises the effects of crystal orientation on the evolution of austenite decomposition to ferrite/martensite in AISI-304 stainless steel, induced by exposure to gallium ions with a focused ion beam. Samples were exposed to the beam multiple times and imaged by electron backscatter diffraction before and after successive exposures, with the data aggregated by orientation clustering to derive insights into the effects of orientation on phase change processes. Propensity to decomposition and produced surface morphologies were observed to have a strong dependence on orientation. Three distinct orientation-based transformation behaviours were observed: grains with beam orientations close to the $\langle 1 0 0\rangle \gamma$ $⟨ 100 ⟩ γ$ and $\langle 1 1 0\rangle \gamma$ $⟨ 110 ⟩ γ$ axes remained untransformed or become amorphised; grains with beam orientations close to the $\langle 1 1 1\rangle \gamma$ $⟨ 111 ⟩ γ$ axis were partially transformed to non-contiguous products at various absolute orientations with beam orientations close to the $\langle 1 1 0\rangle \alpha$ $⟨ 110 ⟩ α$ axis; and grains with beam orientations not close to any of the three principal axes were fully transformed to a single contiguous product with beam orientations close to the $\langle 1 0 0\rangle \alpha$ $⟨ 100 ⟩ α$ axis. Grains were not produced close to the $\langle 1 1 1\rangle \alpha$ $⟨ 111 ⟩ α$ axis in any case.