Effect of microstructure and hardness of duplex stainless steel

  Duplex stainless steel refers to stainless steel in which the ferrite phase and the austenite phase each account for about half (volume fraction) after solution treatment. In general, the content of less phase is at least 30%. This type of steel combines the characteristics of austenitic and ferritic stainless steels with outstanding mechanical and corrosion resistance properties, and is primarily used in petroleum, chemical, construction, and marine industries. Carbon is one of the most useful and economical elements of advanced alloy strength, but so far there has been less discussion about the arrangement and function of high carbon duplex stainless steel.

  The researchers applied high temperature carbon duplex stainless steel 20Cr25Ni11Mo3CuWV to solution treatment and aging treatment at different temperatures. Optical microscope (OM), scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and X-ray diffractometry (XRD) were used. The arrangement was changed and analyzed. The hardness test was used to explore the effect of different solid solution and aging temperature on the hardness of the alloy. the result shows:

  (1) After high-carbon duplex stainless steel 20Cr25Ni11Mo3CuWV is solution treated, the residual particles are arranged as chromium carbide in the arrangement. When the solution temperature reaches 1250 °C, it can not be completely dissolved.

  (2) During the solution treatment, the alloy's ferrite phase content is continuously increased with the increase of solid solution temperature. The hardness of the alloy is 25.8HRC when it is solution treated at 1150 °C.

  (3) After the solution treatment at 1150 °C, the alloy is aged at different temperatures and exhibits two hardness peaks. The difference is 450 °C (38.1HRC) and 700 °C (52.9HRC). The former is because of ferrite. The intra-phase amplitude modulation differentiation precipitated a chromium-rich phase and an iron-rich phase with coherent linkages. The latter was mainly due to the fact that many σ phases were uniformly deposited in the ferrite phase due to the change of eutectoid.

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