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Metallographic Study of Type 304 Stainless Steel Long-Term Creep-Rupture Specimen Biss1981
Metallographic Study of Type 304 Stainless Steel Long-Term Creep-Rupture Specimen Biss1981
ISSN 0360-2133/81/0713-1360500.75/0
9 1981 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR METALS AND
THE METALLURGICAL SOCIETY OF AIME
METALLURGICALTRANSACTIONSA
trated in Figs. l(b) and 3, and was frequently associated with localized grain boundary migration [regions
marked A in Fig. l(b)], leaving behind a matrix free
of carbide precipitate. Sigma phase was identified by
electron-diffraction analysis of several particles present
on extraction replicas. Its composition from EDX
analysis was approximately Fe0 6Cr0.4 . The Cr23C 6 particles in the gage section were oriented preferentially
along crystallographic planes of the austenite matrix,
as shown in Figs. l(b), 3, and 4(a).
Several locations of the gage length showed islands
containing elongated precipitate particles, as illustrated
in Fig. 4. By EDX analysis these islands contained
over 22 pct Cr and less than 1 pct Ni. This composition suggests that during exposure austenite transformed locally to ferrite in the high-stress region. The
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ISSN 0360-2133/81/0713-1362500.75/0
9 1981 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR METALS AND
THE METALLURGICALSOCIEFY OF AIME
METALLURGICALTRANSACTIONSA