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SCRIPTA MATERIALIA
Volume 194, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2020.113640
Keywords
Creep Resistant Steel; Heat Affected Zone; Creep Failure; Gleeble Simulation; Digital Image Correlation
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- Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy's Crosscutting Research Program [FWP-FEAA118]
- US Department of Energy [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
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This study quantified nonuniform creep deformation in the heterogeneous heat-affected zone (HAZ) of Grade 91 steel and further investigated the failure mechanisms of the creep-vulnerable zone (CVZ).
This work quantified nonuniform creep deformation across the heterogeneous heat-affected zone (HAZ) of Grade 91 steel with sophisticated experiments, including an electric-thermal finite element model-assisted Gleeble thermomechanical simulation and a high-temperature creep testing with in situ digital image correlation (DIC). High temperature creep properties of HAZ sub-zones were quantitatively measured by the DIC. By utilizing peak temperature, hardness, local creep strain, and underlying microstructures, creep deformation mechanisms in HAZ were further understood. DIC measurements reveal a creep-vulnerable zone (CVZ) exposed to a peak temperature of 932 degrees C (close to A(C3)) in the intercritical HAZ experienced the fastest creep strength degradation instead of the soft zone with the lowest hardness prior to creep. The significantly reduced precipitation strengthening from misplacement of undissolved and coarsened M23C6 carbides led to a faster recrystallization of tempered martensite in the CVZ. Weak untransformed tempered martensite (ferrite grains) stabilized by local Cr enrichment from dissolved M23C6 also harmed the CVZ's creep resistance. (C) 2020 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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