• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2002년도 Proceedings of the International Welding/Joining Conference-Korea
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• pp.250-254
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• 2002

Intergranular corrosion of austenitic stainless steels is a conventional and momentous problem during welding and high temperature use. One of the major reasons for such intergranular corrosion is so-called sensitization, i.e., chromium depletion due to chromium carbide precipitation at grain boundaries. Conventional methods for preventing sensitization of austenitic stainless steels include reduction of carbon content in the material, stabilization of carbon atoms as non-chromium carbides by the addition of titanium, niobium or zirconium, local solution-heat-treatment by laser beam, etc. These methods, however, are not without drawbacks. Recent grain boundary structure studies have demonstrated that grain boundary phenomena strongly depend on the crystallographic nature and atomic structure of the grain boundary, and that grain boundaries with coincidence site lattices are immune to intergranular corrosion. The concept of "grain boundary design and control", which involves a desirable grain boundary character distribution, has been developed as grain boundary engineering. The feasibility of grain boundary engineering has been demonstrated mainly by thermomechanical treatments. In the present study, a thermomechanical treatment was tried to improve the resistance to the sensitization by grain boundary engineering. A type 304 austenitic stainless steel was pre-strained and heat-treated, and then sensitized, varying the parameters (pre-strain, temperature, time, etc.) during the thermomechanical treatment. The grain boundary character distribution was examined by orientation imaging microscopy. The intergranular corrosion resistance was evaluated by electrochemical potentiokinetic reactivation and ferric sulfate-sulfuric acid tests. The sensitivity to intergranular corrosion was reduced by the thermomechanical treatment and indicated a minimum at a small roll-reduction. The frequency of coincidence-site-lattice boundaries indicated a maximum at a small strain. The ferric sulfate-sulfuric acid test showed much smaller corrosion rate in the thermomechanically-treated specimen than in the base material. An excellent intergranular corrosion resistance was obtained by a small strain annealing at a relatively low temperature for long time. The optimum parameters created a uniform distribution of a high frequency of coincidence site lattice boundaries in the specimen where corrosive random boundaries were isolated. The results suggest that the thermomechanical treatment can introduce low energy segments in the grain boundary network by annealing twins and can arrest the percolation of intergranular corrosion from the surface.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.426-431
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• 2007

고에너지 초음파 여기 탄성파가 물체의 균열, 박리 등의 결함 부위를 통과할 때 서로 맞닿은 결함면은 균일하게 진동하지 않는다. 초음파 입사에 따른 결함 면 사이의 마찰(friction), 문지름 (rubbing) 또는 부딪침(clapping) 에 의해 진동 에너지가 결함 부위에서 국부적인 열로 변환된다. 이를 적외선 열 영상 카메라로 관측하면 구조물의 결함을 실시간으로 검출할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 초음파 열 영상 검사를 이용한 인코넬 합금 박판의 브레이징 접합 결함 검출에 대해 기술한다. 2 kW 의 전력과 23 kHz 대역의 가진 주파수를 갖는 초음파 펄스를 280 ms 기간 동안 인코넬 합금의 브레이징 접합 박판에 입사시켰다. 브레이징 접합부의 결함위치 부근의 인코넬 합금 박판의 양면이 맞닿은 경계선에서 아주 밝은 국부적인 발열(핫 스팟)이 적외선 열 영상 카메라에 의해 관측되었으며 브레이징 접합 결함 위치에서도 미약한 열이 관측되었다. 배경 감산 평균 및 히스토그램 평활화 처리 등의 영상처리를 통해 브레이징 접합의 결함을 확인하였다.