Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
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Is there such a thing as "Thermally stabilized stainless steel type 347"?
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RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
Thermally stabilized might mean in regards to residual stresses.
It also could mean that the steel (because it has V in it) is stable with regards to thermal sensitiztion.
Nick
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Michael McGuire
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What annealing temp and time would you suggest? Also, can this be done on a continuous annealing line or would it require a batch anneal?
Thank you very much in advance.
Hamid Naziri
RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
I believe that we used to use 1900-1950F for solution anneal and 1500-1550F for stabalization.
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RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
Michael McGuire
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Hamid Naziri
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RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
A couple of minutes are fine. Basically just get the material to uniform temp and it is done.
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RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
Thick wall, thick welds , large deformed parts and parts with secondary stresses all if operating in the temperature range of 550 to 850Deg. C
Stabilizing heat treatment can avoid this type of cracking.
For reference see ASME IID app. A-370 and a lot of literature is available on this subject.
RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
Sorry that I did not get back to you sooner. If you would like specific information on the phenomenon I described above for Type 347 stainless steel it can be found in the book titled "Welding Metallurgy of Stainless Steels" by J Lippold and D Kotecki. An excellent reference book if you are involved with welding.
There is specific reference to Type 347 stainless steel as the only stainless steel susceptible to reheat cracking, (which others have called "stress induced cracking from carbide precipitation"). The reason Type 347 stainless is singled out is related to the precipitation of MC type carbides, of which NbC falls under this category.
By the way, per the write-up in the book, the NbC precipitates that result in reheat cracking susceptibility follows classic C-shaped curve behavior.
RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
Could the stress-induced carbide precipitation account for why we experienced SCC in our 347 boiler tubes first in the 180° bends (cold bends), then our 90° bends and finally in our straight sections? I've seen strain influenced precipitation of graphite in boiler tubes where the tube straightening process produces a tube which then experiences graphitization failures along the 45° lines with respect to the tube axis (similar to the orientation of luder's bands in a tensile test. Dave French's book refers to this as "church-key graphitization" for reasons explained in said tome). Could the same strain influences occur in 347 stainless?
RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
Yes, most certainly. I was trying to locate two papers that one of my peers in the Power Generation business sent to me about 2 years ago. That is how I was introduced to this specific problem with Type 347 SS.
One paper dealt with SCC in an aqueous environment of the boiler tubing (trapped condensate in tube bends) and the other dealt with reheat cracking of Type 347 ss. I squirrel so much stuff away that I started to loose track of papers in my possession.
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When you find that reference could you let the rest of us know, too. That's an odd phenomenon.
Michael McGuire
http://stainlesssteelforengineers.blogspot.com/
RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
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RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
Michael McGuire
http://stainlesssteelforengineers.blogspot.com/
RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
- "Proposed ABB Combustion Engineering Policy Statement Regarding the Heat Treatment of Stainless Steel Bends and Welds", a Tech Service (Windsor) document received in-house 3/1993, but no date of the policy statement is given in our fax copy of that document. The document proposes stain-induced precipitation hardening in the cold bend regions as having an adverse influence on creep properties. A subsequent EEI Prime Movers Committee report (EEI Pub. No. 65-58, June 1965) does not find supporting evidence.
- A Kraftwerk Union topical report "Material Comparison of AISI 347 to KWU specifications with AISI 316 Nuclear Grade (316 NG)" shows a reduction in IGSCC with increasing Cb/C ratios (Nb/C for those on the other side of the pond).
RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
I have generally noticed that SCC is accelerated by any action which destabilizes austenite, like the removal from solution of carbon. Maybe something like that is occurring in cold worked areas.
Stabilizing anneal of 347 would allow all Nb and C to combine which would detract from creep properties, since it is Nb in solution which hinders the dislocation motion which causes creep. Nb carbides coarsen easily, so they don't help against creep.
Michael McGuire
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RE: Thermally Stabilized Stainless Steel Type 347
As promised, here are several references regarding strain induced precipitation hardening in Austenitic stainless steel containing Nb;
1. Cracking in Welded Joints of Austenitic Steel in CEGB Power Stations, Autumn Meeting 1960, Welding Technology
2. The effect of heat-treatment and microstructure on the high temperature ductility of 18%Cr-12%Ni-1 Nb steels, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, October 1960
3. Heat-affected zone cracking in welded high-temperature austenitic steels, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, October, 1960
4. Microstructural causes of heat-affected zone cracking in heavy section 18-12-Nb austenitic steel welded joints, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, January, 1961