The Paton Welding Journal, 2013, №03



2013 №03 (11)

2013 №03 (02)

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The Paton Welding Journal, 2013, #3, 2-5 pages  

INDICES OF PORE FORMATION IN HEAT TREATMENT OF WELDED ASSEMBLIES FROM STEELS SUSCEPTIBLE TO TEMPERING CRACKING

V.I. MAKHNENKO, O.V. MAKHNENKO, E.A. Velikoivanenko, G.F. ROZYNKA and N.I. PIVTORAK

E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute, NASU, Kiev, Ukraine
 
 
Abstract
It is well-known fact that the welded joints from heat-resistant steel of 10GN2MFA type, widely used in power engineering, have a tendency to formation of tempering cracks. Aim of the present work was a grounded explanation of reasons of crack appearance as well as understanding of mechanisms of their preventing based on pore formation in material creep. It is shown in the work using published experimental data of Prof. I. Hryvnak on this problem and attracting modern statements of mechanism of poor formation in plastic deforming (strain ageing) that mechanism of section loss near the grain boundary in HAZ metal becomes significantly apparent in two-hour holding at 700-600 ^oC temperature due to pore formation at relaxation of high tempering residual stresses. Efficiency of heat treatment (relaxation of high residual stresses related with manufacture and, in particular, with repair of critical structures from considered steel) is rapidly reduced at tempering temperatures below 600 ^oC. Therefore, existing anxieties related with effect of modes of high tempering on appearance of tempering cracks in HAZ at fusion welding of specified type of steel are grounded enough and require particular attention to problems of determination of permissibility of corresponding repairs and development of suitable technologies on modes of post-weld heat treatment. This allows significantly reducing operation expenses. 8 Ref., 2 Tables, 3 Figures.
 
 
Keywords: tempering cracks in HAZ of low-alloy steel, strain ageing, relaxation of residual stresses, grain-boundary diffusion, pore formation
 
 
Received:                24.12.12
Published:                28.03.13
 
 
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