The present paper reports the results of a blind round robin test dedicated to the measurement of the retained austenite content of different TRIP assisted multiphase steels. Various surface and volume techniques, i.e. light microscopy, X-ray diffraction, electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD), magnetic saturation, thermal diffusivity and laser ultrasonics, were used by different partners. The compiled results show a quite large variability of the estimated retained austenite content, particularly for well established techniques, such as X-ray diffraction (XRD) and magnetisation. On the other hand, emerging techniques like EBSD, thermal diffusivity and laser ultrasonics warrant further investigations.
Jacques, P., Allain, S., Bouaziz, O., De, A., Gourgues, A.-F., Hance, B. M., Houbaert, Y., Huang, J., Iza-Mendia, A., Kruger, S. E., Radu, M., Samek, L., Speer, J., Zhao, L., & van der Zwaag, S. (2009). On measurement of retained austenite in multiphase TRIP steels - results of blind round robin test involving six different techniques. Materials Science and Technology, 25(5), 567-574. https://doi.org/10.1179/174328408X353723 (Original work published 2009)