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Applicability of Air Cooling Heat-treatment for a Duplex Stainless Steel Casting  

Kim, Bong-Whan (New Materials Processing Team, Advanced Materials R&D Center, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Yang, Sik (New Materials Processing Team, Advanced Materials R&D Center, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Shin, Je-Sik (New Materials Processing Team, Advanced Materials R&D Center, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Lee, Sang-Mok (New Materials Processing Team, Advanced Materials R&D Center, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Moon, Byung-Moon (New Materials Processing Team, Advanced Materials R&D Center, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Publication Information
Journal of Korea Foundry Society / v.26, no.1, 2006 , pp. 17-26 More about this Journal
Abstract
The substitution of cooling method from water quenching to air cooling after solution heat treatment was aimed for the development of a convenient and economical heat treatment process of duplex stainless steels without deterioration of mechanical and corrosion resistant properties for the industry. In order to achieve this goal, the mechanical properties and corrosion properties of a ASTM A890-4A duplex stainless steel were systematically investigated as functions of casting condition and cooling method after solution heat treatment. A 3-stepped sand mold and a permanent Y-block mold were used to check the effects of solidification structure and cooling rate after solution heat treatment. The microstructural characteristics such as the ferrite/austenite phase ratio and the precipitation behavior of ${\sigma}$ phase and carbides were investigated by combined analysis of OM and SEM-EDX with an aid of TTT diagram. Hardness and tension test were performed to evaluate the mechanical properties. Impact property at $-40^{\circ}C$ and corrosion resistance were also examined to check the possibility of the industrial application of this basic study. Throughout this investigation, air-cooling method was proved to effectively substitute for water-quenching process after the solution heat treatment, when the duplex stainless steel was sand mold cast with a thickness below 15 mm or permanent mold cast with a thickness below 20 mm.
Keywords
ASTM A890-4A duplex stainless steel; Solidification structure; Solution heat treatment; Cooling method; Phase ratio; ${\sigma}$ phase; Mechanical properties; Corrosion resistance;
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