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Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Sustainable Alloy Design: Toward a Recyclable Unified Q&P Steel.

Xiaolu Wei¹, Yong Li¹, Chenchong Wang¹

¹The State Key Laboratory of Digital Steel, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.

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Summary

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A new physics-informed machine learning framework enables a single Quenching and Partitioning (Q&P) steel composition to achieve multiple strength grades (Q&P980, Q&P1180, Q&P1380) through heat-treatment tuning, simplifying alloy design and recycling.

Keywords:

physics‐informed machine learning property bridging quenching and partitioning steels sustainable alloy design unified‐composition steels

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Metallurgy
Computational Materials Science

Background:

Advanced high-strength steels like Quenching and Partitioning (Q&P) steels typically require distinct chemistries for different grades.
This grade-specific approach complicates welding and hinders efficient recycling processes.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a unified-composition approach for Q&P steel design using a physics-informed machine learning framework.
To enable a single alloy composition to achieve multiple strength grades (Q&P980, Q&P1180, Q&P1380) by adjusting heat treatment processes.

Main Methods:

A physics-guided property-bridging model was developed to integrate metallurgical descriptors with hardness data, enabling knowledge transfer to predict tensile properties from limited tensile data.
A multi-objective genetic algorithm was employed to explore the composition-process space for identifying optimal alloy compositions and processing parameters.
The framework was validated through experimental testing to confirm the achievement of target tensile strengths and ductility.

Main Results:

The physics-informed framework significantly improved tensile property prediction accuracy (R² up to 84%) compared to purely data-driven methods (R² up to 74%).
The model demonstrated enhanced stability under data-sparse conditions.
Experimental validation confirmed that a single Q&P steel chemistry can achieve target strengths of ~980, ~1180, and ~1380 MPa with appropriate ductility via tailored Q&P schedules.

Conclusions:

The proposed physics-informed machine learning framework offers a paradigm for sustainable alloy design, reducing chemical complexity and facilitating recycling.
Unified-composition Q&P steels achieved through heat-treatment tuning represent a significant advancement in materials development.