scholarly journals Solidification Cracking Susceptibility of Stainless Steels: New Test and Explanation

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (10) ◽  
pp. 255s-270s ◽  
Author(s):  
KUN LIU ◽  
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PING YU ◽  
SINDO KOU

The susceptibility of austenitic, ferritic, and duplex stain-less steels to solidification cracking was evaluated by the new Transverse Motion Weldability (TMW) test. The focus was on austenitic stainless steels. 304L and 316L were least susceptible, 321 was significantly more susceptible, and 310 was much more susceptible. However, some 321 welds were even less susceptible than 304L welds. These 321 welds were found to have much finer grains to better resist solidification cracking. Quenching 321 during welding revealed spontaneous grain refining could occur by heterogeneous nucleation. For 304L, 316L, and 310, a new explanation for the susceptibility was proposed based on the continuity of the liquid between columnar dendrites; a discontinuous, isolated liquid allows bonding between dendrites to occur early to better resist cracking. In 304L and 316L, the dendrite-boundary liquid was discontinuous and isolated, as revealed by quenching. The liquid was likely depleted by both fast back diffusion into -dendrites (body-centered cubic) and the L +  + reaction, which consumed L while forming . In 310, however, the dendrites were separated by a continuous liquid that prevented early bonding between them. Back diffusion into -dendrites (face-centered cubic) was much slower, and the L +  + reaction formed little . Quenching also revealed skeletal/lacy formed in 304L and 316L well after solidification ended; thus, skeletal/lacy did not resist solidification cracking, as had been widely believed for decades. The TMW test further demonstrated that both more sulfur and slower welding can increase susceptibility.

2006 ◽  
pp. 43-75

Abstract Austenitic stainless steels exhibit a single-phase, face-centered cubic structure that is maintained over a wide range of temperatures. This chapter provides a basic understanding of grade designations, properties, and welding considerations of austenitic stainless steels. It also discusses general types of corrosive attack and their effects on service integrity as well as detection and control measures. The five corrosive attack mechanisms covered are intergranular corrosion, preferential attack associated with weld metal precipitates, pitting and crevice corrosion, stress-corrosion cracking, and microbiologically influenced corrosion.


Author(s):  
Robert C. Rau ◽  
Robert L. Ladd

Recent studies have shown the presence of voids in several face-centered cubic metals after neutron irradiation at elevated temperatures. These voids were found when the irradiation temperature was above 0.3 Tm where Tm is the absolute melting point, and were ascribed to the agglomeration of lattice vacancies resulting from fast neutron generated displacement cascades. The present paper reports the existence of similar voids in the body-centered cubic metals tungsten and molybdenum.


2018 ◽  
Vol 941 ◽  
pp. 679-685
Author(s):  
Kazuyoshi Saida ◽  
Tomo Ogura

The hot cracking (solidification cracking) susceptibility in the weld metals of duplex stainless steels were quantitatively evaluated by Transverse-Varestraint test with gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) and laser beam welding (LBW). Three kinds of duplex stainless steels (lean, standard and super duplex stainless steels) were used for evaluation. The solidification brittle temperature ranges (BTR) of duplex stainless steels were 58K, 60K and 76K for standard, lean and super duplex stainless steels, respectively, and were comparable to those of austenitic stainless steels with FA solidification mode. The BTRs in LBW were 10-15K lower than those in GTAW for any steels. In order to clarify the governing factors of solidification cracking in duplex stainless steels, the solidification segregation behaviours of alloying and impurity elements were numerically analysed during GTAW and LBW. Although the harmful elements to solidification cracking such as P, S and C were segregated in the residual liquid phase in any joints, the solidification segregation of P, S and C in LBW was inhibited compared with GTAW due to the rapid cooling rate in LBW. It followed that the decreased solidification cracking susceptibility of duplex stainless steels in LBW would be mainly attributed to the suppression of solidification segregation of P, S and C.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 706
Author(s):  
Yue Su ◽  
Songqin Xia ◽  
Jia Huang ◽  
Qingyuan Liu ◽  
Haocheng Liu ◽  
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Recently, the irradiation behaviors of multi-component alloys have stimulated an increasing interest due to their ability to suppress the growth of irradiation defects, though the mostly studied alloys are limited to face centered cubic (fcc) structured multi-component alloys. In this work, two single-phase body centered cubic (bcc) structured multi-component alloys (CrFeV, AlCrFeV) with different lattice distortions were prepared by vacuum arc melting, and the reference of α-Fe was also prepared. After 6 MeV Au ions irradiation to over 100 dpa (displacement per atom) at 500 °C, the bcc structured CrFeV and AlCrFeV exhibited significantly improved irradiation swelling resistance compared to α-Fe, especially AlCrFeV. The AlCrFeV alloy possesses superior swelling resistance, showing no voids compared to α-Fe and CrFeV alloy, and scarce irradiation softening appears in AlCrFeV. Owing to their chemical complexity, it is believed that the multi-component alloys under irradiation have more defect recombination and less damage accumulation. Accordingly, we discuss the origin of irradiation resistance and the Al effect in the studied bcc structured multi-component alloys.


2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (08) ◽  
pp. 1159-1173 ◽  
Author(s):  
CASEY MANN ◽  
JENNIFER MCLOUD-MANN ◽  
RAMONA RANALLI ◽  
NATHAN SMITH ◽  
BENJAMIN MCCARTY

This article concerns the minimal knotting number for several types of lattices, including the face-centered cubic lattice (fcc), two variations of the body-centered cubic lattice (bcc-14 and bcc-8), and simple-hexagonal lattices (sh). We find, through the use of a computer algorithm, that the minimal knotting number in sh is 20, in fcc is 15, in bcc-14 is 13, and bcc-8 is 18.


1976 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 1539-1542 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. M. Ledbetter

Abstract The Poisson ratio υ of a polycrystalline aggregate was calculated for both the face-centered cubic and the body-centered cubic cases. A general two-body central-force interatomatic potential was used. Deviations of υ from 0.25 were verified. A lower value of υ is predicted for the f.c.c. case than for the b.c.c. case. Observed values of υ for twenty-three cubic elements are discussed in terms of the predicted values. Effects of including volume-dependent electron-energy terms in the inter-atomic potential are discussed.


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