An Experimental and Numerical Approach for the Welding Effects on the Duplex Stainless Steel Microstructure

Materials Research

Carlos Roberto Xavier¹  Horácio Guimarães Delgado Junior¹  José Adilson De Castro¹ 

关键词: duplex stainless steel;    welding;    numerical simulation;    microstructure;    heat input;    shielding gas;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1516-1439.302014

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Key microstructural changes that occur when Duplex Stainless Steels (DSS) are welded could be evaluated when bead-on-plate welding was carried out on a 2205 DSS by the GMAW process. By using numerical simulations, it was possible to calculate locally the heating and cooling rates taking place during the 2205 DSS welding and discuss its correlation to the microstructural changes experimented by the parent metal. Results showed that increasing heat input has promoted the ferritic grain growth with a slight reduction in the austenite content present at the high temperature heat affected zone (HTHAZ), whereas the cooling rates remained above from those reported as critical for sigma phase precipitation in 2205 DSS. Furthermore, nitrogen has proved to be an effective austenite former at the fusion zone (FZ), which can contributes to get a balanced microstructure in DSS welds in contrast to the effects from the elevated cooling rates.

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