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We now witness many vigorous attempts to improve the properties of austenitic stainless steels. Mechanical-property and physicalproperty improvements require two essential ingredients: an understanding based on theory and accurate measurements of important properties.
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Ledbetter, H.M. (1983). Austenitic-Steel Elastic Constants. In: Reed, R.P., Horiuchi, T. (eds) Austenitic Steels at Low Temperatures. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3730-0_5
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