A Study on the Susceptibility to Intergranular Stress - Corrosion Cracking of Type 321 Stainless Steel Pipe Weldments
이재봉 , 김경택 , 김재웅 Jae Bong Lee , Gyoung Taek Kim , Jae Woong Kim
Abstract
The susceptibility to intergranular stress-corrosion cracking of type 321 stainless steel weldments with the effect of various post-weld heat treatments was investigated measuring the degree of sensitization by using the double loop EPR(electrochemical potentiokinetic reactivation) test and the oxalic acid etch test. The effects of post-weld heat treatments on the increase in resistance to sensitization of weldments were simulated by heat-treating as-received samples with a furnace in the laboratory. In addition to heat-treatment simulation tests, the weldments fabricated same as done in the field were tested in order to elucidate the effects of post weld heat treatments on sensitization and intergranular stress-corrosion cracking. The relationship between the resistance to polythionic acid stress-corrosion cracking (PA SCC) and the sensitization of weldments was also investigated by conducting bending SCC tests as well as slow strain-rate tensile tests. The results showed that type 321 stainless steels with than Ti/C>10 have very little chance for PA SCC in the vicinity of the weldment.