Abstract:High strength stainless steels (HSSSs) play a vitally important role as a material candidate applied into advancing manufacturing industries, such as aeronautics and astronautics, maritime engineering, and petroleum engineering, due to the excellent service performance and mature production processes. The development and application history of HSSSs is systematically reviewed. The strengthening and toughening mechanisms of this steel grade as well as iron-based materials and the latest research results on the topic are also summarized. Besides, the primary factors exerting impact on the hydrogen trapping behavior and hydrogen embrittlement resistance of HSSSs are analyzed. Based on the current results, it is further proposed that the co-strengthening of multiple nano-scale secondary phases is a promising pathway to break through the limit of strength-toughness synergy. Both the mechanical and chemical stability of reversed austenite can be enhanced by tuning the precipitation interaction between the precipitates and reversed austenite. Stable austenite phase acts as a dual “trap” of both cracks and diffusible hydrogen atoms, which effectively improves the resistance of cracking and hydrogen embrittlement. It is eventually suggested that special attention should be paid to the “artificial intelligent” alloy designing concepts, including materials genetic algorithm, artificial neural network, and machine learning, for the future research and development of HSSSs.
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