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MATERIALS
Volume 13, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma13183985
Keywords
Grade 91 steel; creep strength; intercritical treatment; microstructure; mechanical properties
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- Department of Energy Crosscutting Research Program [FWP-FEAA118]
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Premature creep failures at the intercritical heat affected zone (ICHAZ) of creep-resistant steel weldments have been frequently reported. However, the creep degradation mechanism of different microstructure constituents in ICHAZ is complicated and needs further clarification. In this work, Grade 91 steel was intercritically heat-treated at a temperature (860 degrees C) between the critical temperatures A(C1)and A(C3), and a correlation between microstructure and mechanical properties of the heat-treated specimen was built. The effects of austenitization and tempering resulting from the intercritical treatment (IT) differentiated the local strain energies between the two microstructure constituents: newly transformed martensite (NTM) and over-tempered martensite (OTM). The formation of NTM grains led to a hardness increase from 247 HV0.5 in the base metal to 332 HV0.5 in the IT specimen. The ultimate tensile strength (UTS) increased from 739 MPa in the base metal to 1054 MPa in the IT specimen. Extensive growth of the OTM grains and rapid recovery of NTM grains took place simultaneously in the IT specimen during a typical tempering at 760 degrees C. These microstructure degradations led to a lowered hardness of 178 HV0.5, a reduced UTS of 596 MPa, and a poor creep resistance with a minimum creep strain rate of 0.49 %/h at 650 degrees C in an IT + tempering (ITT) specimen.
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