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Effect of thermal cycle on microstructure and mechanical properties of the austenitic heat resistant steel
HE Yang, ZHAI Ya-zhong, ZHAO Ji-qing, CHE Hong-yan, LI Ji-guang
2025, 51 (1):
11-18.
Austenitic heat resistant steels are widely used in thermal power, nuclear power, aerospace, and other fields owing to their excellent performance at high temperatures. Fine grain size and uniform distributed carbides within the matrix are important reasons for austenitic steels with excellent performance. The microstructure of austenitic steel would experience degradation under extreme working conditions accompanied by thermal cycles. To clarify the effect of microstructure evolution on mechanical properties during the thermal cycle process, three sets of thermal cycles were carried out on an austenitic heat resistant steel 0Cr25Ni13Si2MoN on the condition of delivery. Optical microscope (OM), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and transmission electron microscope (TEM) were used to analyze the microstructure of the materials that experienced thermal cycles after different times. Also, impact toughness tests were carried out, respectively. The results showed that there exists a relationship between the microstructure evolution and time during the thermal cycles, recovery and recrystallization happen to the steel accompanied with M23C6 precipitated around grain boundaries during the first thermal cycle, which decreased the impact toughness, and the density of annealing twins is increased during the next two thermal cycles, however, the carbides is increased and coarsened,which increasesthe impact toughness.
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