Survey on strain hardening of wiredrawn stainless steel

The purpose of this study is to understand the effects of deformation in terms of area reduction, to strain hardening behavior of AISI 316L austenitic stainless steels and AISI 430 ferritic stainless steels which are deformed by the wire drawing process. Chapter 1 is the introduction part explains briefly the procedure and the methodology performed in this study. Chapter 2 covers the general review of the literature about deformation, strain hardening phenomenon, wire drawing process and tensile testing. Chapter 3 also covers the general review of the literature about microstructural characterization and EBSD analysis. In Chapter 4, experimental methodology of microstructural characterization, tensile testing and EBSD analysis, and mechanical information of the materials are mentioned. Chapter 5 shows the results and their discussions, all the experimental results of the tests and analyses were published. Finally, with the help of the data obtained from all the tests and analyses, the correlation between strain hardening behavior and wire drawing process is discussed.