Bauschinger effect in structural steels and role in fabrication of line pipe: Part 1 analysis of Bauschinger effect in structural steels

During the plastic deformation of a two-phase system containing hard particles it is important to determine the extent to which these particles support unrelaxed plastic strains. The amount of unrelaxed strain can be determined, in principle, from measurements of the behaviour of the material during reverse flow. The existence of unrelaxed plastic strains can give rise to internal stresses which not only aid flow in the reverse direction but …