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Kinetics of Sigma Phase Precipitation in Niobium-Stabilized Austenitic Stainless Steel and Effect on the Mechanical Properties
2014
Stabilized austenitic stainless steels are widely used in nuclear and oil industries. The 316 Nb steel grade presented in this study holds a small amount of delta ferrite in the austenitic matrix which tends to transform into sigma phase during prolonged exposures in the temperature range of 600-1000°C. Sigma phase is promoted by ferritic elements such as chromium, molybdenum, niobium and silicon. Time-Temperature-Transformation (TTT) diagram of the δ-ferrite evolution is established thanks to DSC experiments and quantitative metallographic analysis. It is observed that the highest sigma phase formation rate occurs between 800 and 900°C, and that the transformation of ferrite begins after a…
Corrosion Resistance of Alloys in IGCC Environment
2001
IGCC recovery boiler materials are subject to severe corrosion in environments composed of a gas mixture (CO-H 2 -H 2 O-CO 2 -H 2 S) and vanadium-containing fly-ash resulting from the combustion of oil residues. This paper presents a study of the corrosion behaviour of two Fe-Ni-Cr austenitic alloys in a typical IGCC environment at 400°C. The alloy composition influences the vanadium incorporated in the corrosion scales during the test, which affects the scale growth process. The valence state (determined by micro-XANES) and the amount of the incorporated vanadium is modified by a subsequent air flow at 400°C.
The influence of thin hard coatings on frictional behaviour in the orthogonal cutting process
2000
New knowledge about the tribological response deriving from the interaction of the substrate/coating-chip system, with special attention to the orthogonal cutting process when chatter-free end turning using natural contact tools, is developed. In order to evaluate the frictional behaviour of this process under modified contact conditions, experimental investigations including the contact temperature, the contact loads, friction and the frictional heat flux per unit area were carried out. In contrast to the most obvious approach, the coefficient of sliding friction versus the cutting speed, the contact temperature, the normal pressure and the interface control factor is considered. A number …
Microstructural Characterization of Thermo-Mechanical Treated TRIP Steels
2007
The increasing demand for the reduction of automobiles CO2 emissions for environmental preservation leads the automotive industries towards the mechanical components weight reduction. Sheet steels with multiphase microstructures exhibit favourable combinations of strength and ductility. The so called TRIP steels have a metastable microstructure that consists of a continuous ferrite matrix containing a dispersion of hard second phases martensite and bainite. These steels also contain retained austenite, at room temperature, that represents the source of the TRansformation Induced Plasticity effect. When the material is subjected to deformation step, the retained austenite transforms itself i…
Microstructural evolution of wear-resistant FeCrB and FeCrNiCoB coating alloys during high-energy mechanical attrition
2008
Mechanical milling/attrition provides a convenient scope of simulating the microstructural changes encountered by wear-resistant coating alloys subjected to deformation under high frequency and high-intensity impact loading or accelerated wear condition. In the present study, the microstructural evolution of two commercial coating materials, FeCrB (Armacor M) and FeCrNiCoB (Armacor C), in the course of low- and high-intensity mechanical attrition, was monitored by X-ray diffraction and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. While low-intensity milling leads to marginal grain refinement but no change in phase-aggregate in FeCrB, similar mechanical attrition causes boride precipita…
Influence of friction on the local mechanical and electrochemical behaviour of duplex stainless steels.
2006
International audience; The electrochemical behaviour of ferritic and austenitic phases in duplex stainless steel (UNS S32304) and the modifications induced by straining during sliding were studied by potentiodynamic polarisation curves determined at the microscale in a 1MNaCl (pH 3) solution, using an electrochemical microcell. The mechanical properties and stress state of each phase were determined by microhardness and X-ray microdiffraction measurements, before and after straining. The results show that sliding generates elastic straining of the ferrite and plastic deformation of the austenite. The electrochemical behaviour of these phases is dramatically altered, inducing a reduction of…
MZ-35, a new layered pentasil borosilicate synthesized in the presence of large alkali cations
2013
Abstract A new layered borosilicate has been synthesized in the presence of cesium and sodium cations and its structure has been solved by a combination of automated diffraction tomography (ADT) and X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD). MZ-35 has a composition NaCs 2 [BSi 7 O 16 (OH) 2 ](OH) 2 ·4H 2 O and features space group P-4m2. The unusually small unit cell ( a 7.3081 A, c 10.7520 A) is shared by two random-stacked configurations of the structure: a network of connected pentasil units related to the layer of RUB-18 and a bidimensional checkerboard of intersecting ladders of 4-membered rings. The two configurations are related by the simple face-sharing inversion of a hydroxyl-bearing tetrah…
Model-based optimization of injection strategies for SI engine gas injectors
2014
A mathematical model for the prediction of the mass injected by a gaseous fuel solenoid injector for spark ignition (SI) engines has been realized and validated through experimental data by the authors in a recent work [1]. The gas injector has been studied with particular reference to the complex needle motion during the opening and closing phases. Such motion may significantly affect the amount of injected fuel. When the injector nozzle is fully open, the mass flow depends only on the upstream fluid pressure and temperature. This phenomenon creates a linear relationship between the injected fuel mass and the injection time (i.e. the duration of the injection pulse), thus enabling efficien…
Inhibitoren der Korrosion 21 (1) - Autoxidationsstudien an Fe2+-Salzen der Tetramethylen-1,4-bis-phosphonsäure, der Hexamethylen-1,6-bis-phosphonsäur…
1978
Die Wirksamkeit der organischen Bisphosphonsauren als Inhibitoren der Korrosion von Eisen ist dadurch bedingt, das die aus der Eisenoberflache auftretenden Fe2+-Ionen direkt am Austrittsort mit den Sauren reagieren und an Ort und Stelle dreidimensional vernetzte Deckschichten aufbauen. Je dichter die Struktur dieser Schichten, je bestandiger das Netzwerk gegen Sauerstoff und je hydrolysebestandiger die FeOP-Bindungen, desto besser ist die Schutzwirkung: Dadurch wird sowohl dem Sauerstoff als auch dem Chloridion der Zugang zur Metalloberflache verwehrt. Die Modellversuche ermoglichen aufgrund der Verteilung des Phosphors in den Niederschlagen Ruckschlusse auf den Vernetzungsgrad. Corrosion I…
Inhibitoren der Korrosion 19 (1). Autoxidationsstudien an Fe2+-Trimethylen-1,3-bis-phosphonat als Modell einer die Korrosion inhibierenden Deckschicht
1976
Die Autoxidationsgeschwindigkeit der Fe2+. Salze ist stark abhangig vom pH und ist bei pH 2 praktisch gleich Null, bei pH 5–7 sehr hoch. Durch Zusatz von Trimethylen-1,3-bis-phosphonsaure wird die Autoxidation etwas verlangsamt und der Sauerstoffverbrauch starker erhoht als es der Stochiometrie der Fe2+-Oxidation entspricht. Dieser Umstand erklart sich durch den oxidativen Abbau der Trimethylen-1,3-bis-phosphonsaure zu Phosphorsaure, wobei Salze des dreiwertigen Eisens als Niederschlag ausfallen. Diese Fe3+-bis-phosphonate sind dreidimensional vernetzt; das Fe:P-Verhaltnis liegt zwischen 0.5 und 0.9 und wird mit abnehmendem pH-Wert geringer. Inhibitors of corrosion 19 (1). Autoxidation stud…