Thermal aging behaviors of duplex stainless steels used in nuclear power plant: A review

Y Fan, TG Liu, L **n, YM Han, YH Lu, T Shoji - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Duplex stainless steels (DSS) suffer from thermal aging embrittlement after long-term service
in the temperature range of 280-320° C, leading to severe deterioration of mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of multiple thermal cycling on the microstructure and microhardness of Inconel 625 by high-speed laser cladding

K Fu, C Zhong, L Zhang, X Wang, B Nie, Y Xue… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Establishing the relationship between thermal cycling and the induced evolution of
microstructures and cladding layer properties is crucial to achieving microstructural and …

Evolution of the microstructure of a 15-5PH martensitic stainless steel during precipitation hardening heat treatment

L Couturier, F De Geuser, M Descoins, A Deschamps - Materials & Design, 2016 - Elsevier
The mechanical properties of precipitation-hardened stainless steels rely on a complex multi-
scale microstructure developed during a sequence of quenching after austenitization …

Interactive effect of thermal aging and proton irradiation on microstructural evolution and hardening of δ-ferrite in 308L stainless steel weld metal

X Gao, X Lin, T Guo, L Xu, Y Han, B Jiang, X Mei… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the harsh service environment of high temperature and intense neutron irradiation in
water-cooled nuclear reactors, the austenitic stainless steel weld overlay cladding on the …

Using post-processing heat treatments to elucidate precipitate strengthening of additively manufactured superalloy 718

S Taller, T Austin - Additive Manufacturing, 2022 - Elsevier
The poor machinability and extensive work hardening of Ni-based superalloys makes
additive manufacturing an attractive option for producing geometrically complex components …

The two-step nucleation of G-phase in ferrite

Y Matsukawa, T Takeuchi, Y Kakubo, T Suzudo… - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
By combining atom probe tomography (APT) with transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
we have attempted to identify the stage at which solute clusters transform into compounds …

[HTML][HTML] Additive manufacturing of the ferritic stainless steel SS441

D Karlsson, CY Chou, NH Pettersson, T Helander… - Additive …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, the ferritic stainless steel SS441 was produced with excellent mechanical
properties using laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) compared to samples produced by …

Emulation of fast reactor irradiated T91 using dual ion beam irradiation

S Taller, Z Jiao, K Field, GS Was - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Dual ion irradiations using 5 MeV defocused Fe 2+ ions and co-injected He 2+ ions were
conducted on a ferritic-martensitic steel alloy, T91, in the temperature range of 406° C–570° …

Reconstructing the decomposed ferrite phase to achieve toughness regeneration in a duplex stainless steel

X Liu, W Lu, X Zhang - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Duplex stainless steels suffer from thermal aging embrittlement that results from severe
phase decomposition in ferrite phase after a long-term service at temperatures of 550–700 …

Precipitation behavior in G-phase strengthened ferritic stainless steels

M Yang, DJM King, I Povstugar, Y Wen, J Luan, B Kuhn… - Acta materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
A series of G-phase strengthened ferritic stainless steels Fe-20Cr-3Ni-3Si-X (X= 2Mn, 1Mn-
2Ti, 1Mn-2Nb and 1Mn-2Ta) are characterized after aging using experimental …