Long Term High-Temperature Environmental Effect on Impact Toughness in Austenitic Alloys

Abstract:

Structural integrity is crucial for the safety of power plants with higher efficiency to meet the increasing global energy consumption. High-temperature environment will demand not only improved high-temperature corrosion resistance but also a maintained sufficient toughness. This study investigates how long term high-temperature environment influence the impact toughness of two austenitic stainless steels (AISI 304 and Sandvik SanicroTM 28) and one nickel-bas alloy (Alloy 617). Alloy 617 has shown increasing impact toughness with both increasing temperature and time, up to 700°C and 3 000 hours, while the two austenitic stainless steels have shown the opposite for the same conditions. At 10 000 hours the impact toughness of Alloy 617 has decreased but the alloy still possess great toughness. Both austenitic stainless steels show embrittlement due to brittle σ-phase and Alloy 617 seems to gain good impact toughness performance from small evenly distributed precipitates.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 627)
• Pages: 205-208
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.627.205
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Mattias Calmunger*, Guo Cai Chai, Sten Johansson, Johan Moverare
• Keywords: Austenitic Stainless Steel, High-Temperature Environment, Impact Toughness, Nickel-Base Alloy, Precipitation

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