Journal
MATERIALS
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ma10121443
Keywords
underwater FCAW; pitting corrosion; impact toughness; duplex stainless steel; microstructure; secondary phases; TEM
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51374111, 51175185]
- Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province [2015B010919005, 2015B050502005]
- Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou City [201510010230, 201604046026]
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Materials (Guilin University of Electronic Technology) [161001-K]
- China Scholarship Council [201606155058]
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Duplex stainless steel multi-pass welds were made at 0.15 MPa, 0.45 MPa, and 0.75 MPa pressure, simulating underwater dry hyperbaric welding by the flux-cored arc welding (FCAW) method, with welds of normal pressure as a benchmark. The purpose of this work was to estimate the effect of ambient pressure on the microstructure, pitting corrosion resistance and impact toughness of the weld metal. The microstructure measurement revealed that the ferrite content in the weld metal made at 0.45 MPa is the lowest, followed by that of 0.75 MPa and 0.15 MPa. The analysis of potentiodynamic polarization tests at 30 degrees C and 50 degrees C demonstrated that the pitting corrosion resistance depends on the phases of the lower pitting resistance equivalent numbers (PREN), secondary austenite and ferrite. The weld metal made at 0.45 MPa had the best resistance to pitting corrosion at 30 degrees C and 50 degrees C with the highest PRENs of secondary austenite and ferrite. The weld metal made at 0.15 MPa displayed the lowest pitting corrosion resistance at 30 degrees C with the lowest PREN of secondary austenite, while the weld metal made at 0.75 MPa was the most seriously eroded after being tested at 50 degrees C for the lowest PREN of ferrite, with large cluster pits seen in ferrite at 50 degrees C. The impact tests displayed a typical ductile-brittle transition because of the body-centered cubic (BCC) structure of the ferrite when the test temperature was lowered. All the weld metals met the required value of 34 J at -40 degrees C according to the ASTM A923. The highest ferrite content corresponded to the worst impact toughness, but the highest toughness value did not correspond to the greatest austenite content. With the decreasing of the test temperature, the drop value of absorbed energy was correlated to the ferrite content. Additionally, in this work, the weld metal made at 0.45 MPa had the best combined properties of pitting resistance and impact toughness.
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