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The interactions between engineering materials and their environment which give rise to stress corrosion cracking are reviewed and industrial examples from the petrochemical industry are described. In one of the examples, cracking took place in carbon steel exposed to pressurised gas containing carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and water. The crack morphology in this system was studied by metallography of samples from industrial gas processing plants and the crack growth rates were determined using precracked specimens. Constant extension rate tests, U-bend specimens and potentiodynamic studies were used to evaluate alternative materials and inhibitor additions in CO-C02-H20 environments. Electrochemical noise was accessed as a technique to monitor sec on line. It was found that the CO-C02-H20 system was characterised by a time dependent adsorption of carbon monoxide at anodic and cathodic sites. The adsorption produced a critical balance between crack tip corrosion rate and the repassivation process comparable to the behaviour at the active-passive transition zone in more conventional systems. The anodic passivation exhibited a breakdown potential near to -400 mV (Ag/ AgCI) that defined the zone of sec susceptibility. Inhibition by CO and hence sec was virtually independent of CO partial pressure provided there was a sufficient reservoir of CO. The addition of commercial film forming inhibitors did not greatly influence the system and sec was still observed in CO-C02-H20 environments to which inhibitors had been added. Steels containing alloy additions of more than 9 % chromium were found to be resistant to sec but austenitic-ferritic weld joints cracked. A low alloy 3% nickel steel performed well in the constant extension rate tests but was not wholly resistant to sec. The morphology of stress corrosion cracks in CO-C02-H20 mixtures was influenced by carbon monoxide partial pressure. More corrosion was observed on the crack walls at low carbon monoxide partial pressure and widened cracks resembling •mesa• corrosion were common. This increased corrosion was probably due to difficulty in maintaining passivity in the crevice formed by the growing crack. Similarly, crevicing in precracked specimens appeared to inhibit sec and no crack extension was observed. Electrochemical noise proved to be a useful tool for monitoring. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 1994. / gm2013 / Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering / PhD

The microstructure of a steel is often developed by solid-state transformation from austenite. The major transformation products are allotriomorphic ferrite, pearlite, Widmanstatten ferrite, bainite and martensite, differentiated by morphological features, and their nucleation and growth mechanisms. A steel often consists of several phases as a result of dynamic evolution during continuous cooling. The complexity of the calculation of all the transformations simultaneously poses a challenge. There have been a few attempts at integrating all these transformations into an unified scheme. They involve varying degrees of empiricism. For the first time, a model that can predict simultaneously the volume proportions of all the major transformation products has been developed. The algorithm has taken full account of the thermodynamics and kinetics of individual transformations, instead of empirical equations, so the model should in principle generalise well. The predictions of the model are based on a number of input parameters: the chemical composition, austenite grain size and cooling conditions. The model can simulate cooling at constant rates, or isothermal transformations. Therefore it can also generate continuous cooling transformation (CCT), or time-temperature transformation (TTT) diagrams. The model has demonstrated a consistency in its predictions. The validations of the model against published experiment data and experiments conducted in this work have shown the predictions in most cases are reasonable with errors less than a few volume percent. Further research opportunities presented by the work are reviewed.

Slurry coating technique, as one of the most popular deposition methods, is widely used to produce various material coatings. This method includes two processes: spraying, brushing or dipping of slurry, and sintering heat treatment of the coated specimen. Superalloys and stainless steels are the most common materials used as either coating materials or substrate materials because of their excellent corrosion, wear, high-temperature and mechanical properties. This research is aimed at investigating the influence of the sintering heat treatment in the slurry coating process developed at Kennametal Stellite Inc. on the microstructure, hardness and wear behavior of superalloys and stainless steels. Low-carbon Stellite 22, cobalt-based Tribaloy T-400C, martensitic AISI 420 and AISI 440C stainless steels are studied in this research. The microstructure, hardness and wear resistance of these alloys before and after the heat treatment are investigated, stressing the influence of the heat treatment on these material characteristics. The hardness and wear tested are conducted on these alloys at both room temperature and at elevated temperatures. The worn surfaces of each specimen are analyzed using a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with backscatter electron imaging (BEI) and energy dispersive X ray (EDX) spectrum. It is demonstrated that the heat treatment alters the microstructures of these alloys differently; it increases the hardness but affects the wear resistance more complexly than hardness. At room temperature, the wear resistance of these alloys is governed by their microstructures. However, at high temperatures, oxidation, resulting in formation of oxide films on the specimen surface, influences the wear resistance significantly.

In this research, the corrosion performance of two austenitic stainless steels, namely 316L and 254SMO, in concentrated acetic acid solutions containing bromide ions has been investigated. In this research, the influence of two different electrochemical surface treatments (electropolishing and nitric acid passivation) on the corrosion behaviour of 316L stainless steel immersed in 15.3M HAc with 18.7mM bromide ions at 900°C was examined. Also, attemptswere made to study the performance of three organic inhibitors in the same conditions. Corrosion rates are assessed both by weight loss, and linear polarisation resistance. Interfacial corrosion chemistry is further characterised by open circuit potential and potentiodynamic polarization measurements. Substrate morphology is elucidated with optical microscopy, including 3D surface profiling, and scanning electron microscopy. Also, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is employed to gain further insight into the quite differentcorrosion performances of 316L and 254SMO in 15.3M acetic acid with 18.7mM Br ions.It was found that 316L and 254SMO steels have good corrosion resistance and low corrosion rates in 11.9M-HAc-Br-. Increasing acid concentration to 15.3 M led to a dramatic increase in corrosion rate of 316L with clear evidence of uniform and pitting corrosion proceeding simultaneously. Notably, the step increase in OCP for 316L steel and 254SMO during immersion in 15.3M-HAc-Br- solution indicates sudden changes in corrosion activity of the steels. The step seen for the 254SMO in 15.3M-HAc-Br- is indicative of passivation which is also supported by the XPS results, as a stable passive film was observed on the surface of alloy over the immersion time. However, the step increase in the OCP observed for 316L in 15.3MHAc-Br- is not associated with a significant decrease in corrosion rate. An alternative explanation is that the step coincides with an increase in the importance of pitting due to the evolving surface structure.From the attempts which were made to improve the corrosion resistance of the 316L stainless steel in 15.3M-HAc-Br-, both electropolishing and nitric acid passivation treatments were not sufficient to give any noticeable protection from the aggressive solution. Also, no corrosion inhibition was achieved when the three organic inhibitors, BTA, TU and 2MBI were utilised.

Os aços de ultra resistência com médio carbono e baixa liga apresentam excelentes propriedades de resistência mecânica e à fadiga além de uma elevada temperabilidade. No entanto, tais aços apresentam o fenômeno da têmpera ou de tratamentos superficiais. O aço 300M foi desenvolvido visando a ampliação desta faixa, permitindo tratamentos em temperaturas em torno de 350ºC viabilizando o emprego da técnica de nitretação do mesmo por plasma sem a consequente fragilização. Neste trabalho comparou-se as características e propriedades do aço 300M nitretado por plasma à 350ºC e 550ºC com os aços de alta-resistência AISI 4340, 4140 e 5140 nitretados à 550ºC. Variou-se as condições de tratamento de forma a verificar a influência do tempo de nitretação e de frequência de pulso nas camadas nitretadas. Verificou-se que a nitretação por plasma demostrou ser bastante efetiva para conferir resistência ao desgaste abrasivo para todos os aços nitretados. O aço 300M nitretado em 350ºC apresentou no ensaio de desgaste abrasivo comportamento similar aos demais aços nitretados em 550ºC, enquanto que o melhor resultado geral foi alcançado pelo 300M nitretado à 550ºC em CC durante 6 horas, devido à formação de uma camada dupla de levada dureza e espessura. / The ultrahigh-strength steels with medium carbon and low alloy, like AISI 4340, show excellent tensile strength and fatigue properties further higher hardenability. However, these steels have the phenomenon of tempering embrittlement, that restrict the temperature of treatments after quench or surfaces treatments. The 300M steel was developed aiming the enlargement this area of application, this steel permits treatments in temperatures about 350°C what allowed to use the plasma nitriding without problems with the embrittlement. In this production were compared the properties of the nitrited layers of the 300M nitriding by plasma in 350°C and 550°C with the steels AISI 4340, AISI 4140, AISI 5140 nitriding in 550°C. Plasma nitriding conditions like time and pulse frequency were varied. It was checked that the plasma nitriding showed good performance to improve the resistance to the abrasive wear in ali the steels tested. The 300M steel nitrited in 350°C showed results similar to the others in the pin-on-disk test and the better result occurred to the 300M steel nitrited in 550°C in dC plasma during 6 hours, because of a duble compound lawyer that arouse with a high thickness and high hardness.

Fatigue performance is one of the important mechanical properties which is hindering some of the additive manufacturing build structures. The main objective of this study is to investigate the fatigue life dependence of the 21-6-9 austenitic stainless-steel build using the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technique. The study is mainly focused on the fracture surface based on defects and the micro constituents, how they are related to the fatigue performance of the samples. 21 samples were build using optimized process parameters in which 9 of the samples were built-in vertical direction and the remaining 12 were built in the horizontal direction. Low cycle fatigue (LCF) testing was carried out with the samples with 2 conditions i.e., room temperature 24⁰C and 750 ⁰C. Before the specimens were subjected to testing the samples were stress relived at 600⁰C for 2 hours. Fractography was carried out on the fracture surface to pinpoint the initiation sites (concluded by analyzing the striations) and the cause of failure. Microstructural characterization was carried out in both the vertical and the horizontal direction of the build. The fatigue crack growth initiated from the surface where defects were present, when the cyclic loads were applied the stress concentration at these regions caused the crack initiation to take place. In some cases, the defect size was smaller at the initiation site, and that correlated to increased fatigue life. To optimize the fatigue life of LPBF built 21-6-9 is important to minimize the grain size. However, the absence of defects is crucial as well, as those typically are the weakest link. Therefore, minimizing those during the manufacturing is essential.