Although the industrial sector is very restrictive in terms of the amount of dilution of the substrate allowed in welded Inconel coatings (often below 10%), the real impact of small changes in dilution on corrosion resistance of Inconel deposits is not clear yet. To evaluate this, welding current, welding speed and powder feed rate were varied within narrow ranges during PTA deposition of Inconel 625 onto carbon steel substrates. The effects of welding parameters on dilution and convexity index of the beads were analyzed within the established operational envelope. Potentiodynamic corrosion tests were carried out using solutions with different corrosion aggressiveness for specimens with different dilutions. The current of 180 A appeared as a transient point for the effects of the welding current on dilution and convexity index, suggesting a complex interaction between welding current, welding speed and powder feed rate. XRD results showed that for the specimens with higher dilution, only the region very close to the interface with the substrate was affected, suppressing the formation of the M2C. Interdendritic corrosion with preferential dissolution of some phases was observed as the main corrosion mechanism for all the deposits. The specimens with higher dilution showed tendency for secondary passivation in NaCl and NaCl + FeCl3 solutions. Moreover, the corrosion potential and corrosion current density values obtained for the specimens with lower and higher dilution were very close, with negligible differences, regardless of the position in the bead. The presence of FeCl3 in the electrolyte shifted the corrosion potential to more positive values. In the NaCl + H2SO4 solution, the deposits showed significant differences only in terms of passivation current between higher and lower dilution specimens. However, in general the differences between the deposits were negligible, showing good overall aqueous corrosion resistance in a wide range of highly aggressive environments. Therefore, this work found a relatively wide operational envelope for Inconel 625 PTA deposits, showing that small changes in deposition conditions, and thus in dilution, do not affect the coating applicability.
The effect of the nitrogen content in the shielding gas and its effect on temperature distributions at the welded zone of thin sheets of duplex stainless steel have been evaluated. The duplex stainless steels have many features due to unique microstructural combination of austenite and ferrite grains. The phase balance can be easily shifted depending on the welding parameters. Two sheets were welded using pure argon and pure argon plus 2% of nitrogen as shielding gas. The thermal profile had shown that N 2-supplemented shielding gas lead to higher peaks of temperature using similar welding parameters. Microstructural examination showed that the austenite phase in the weld increased with the presence of nitrogen in the shielding gas. The added nitrogen promoted primary austenite formation and slightly increases the microhardness at the solidified zone. Microhardness mapping and metallographic imaging presented information about microstructures, confirming the formation of secondary phases during thermal cycle in the temperature range 850 °C and 950 °C. Control of ferrite amounts in the welds is essential mainly to improve mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of welding zones.
Thin plates of duplex stainless steel UNS S32304 were welded using the pulsed gas tungsten arc GTAW process (butt joint) without filler addition. The used shielding gas was pure argon and 98% argon plus 2% of nitrogen. The thermal cycles were acquired during welding, in regions near the melting pool. This alloy is candidate for the external clad of a cask for the transport of high activity radiopharmaceuticals substances. For the residual stress measurements in austenite phase an X-ray diffractometer was used in a Bragg-Brentano geometry with CuKα radiation (λ= 0.154 nm) and for ferrite phase was used a pseudo-parallel geometry with CrKα radiation (λ= 0.2291nm). The results of residual stress using sin2y methodology shown that the influence of the high welding temperature leads to compressive stresses for both phase of the duplex steels mainly in heat-affected zone. It was observed a high temperature peak and an increase of the mean residual stress after addition of nitrogen to the argon shielding gas.
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