On the material characteristics of a high carbon cast austenitic stainless steel after solution annealing followed by quenching in a CNT nanofluid

Autor: Nhat Truong Nguyen, Sannakaisa Virtanen, Ali Davoodi, Afshin Nazarnejatizadeh, Abolfazl Babakhani, Seyedsina Hejazi, Ali-Reza Kiani-Rashid, Sadegh Pour-Ali, Hashem Teimourinejad
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: International Journal of Materials Research. 110:570-576
ISSN: 2195-8556
1862-5282
DOI: 10.3139/146.111773
Popis: Solution annealing followed by quenching in carbon nanotubes (QCNT) nanofluid treatment was applied to generate very high interstitial carbon content,≈0.30 wt.%, in an austenitic stainless steel (ASS). The high interstitial carbon content leads to remarkable improvement in mechanical properties with essentially no loss of ductility, with no chromium carbides and/or martensite formation. To evaluate the localized corrosion tendency and passivity behavior, 3.5 wt.% NaCl and borate buffer solutions were used, respectively. Based on the electrochemical corrosion results, both high carbon and low carbon (0.030 wt.%) QCNT-treated ASS alloys show comparable passivity and localized corrosion performance. In addition, Mott–Schottky plots revealed that the anodic films on QCNT-treated samples exhibit similar semiconducting characters.
Databáze: OpenAIRE