Effect of post weld heat treatment on the interplay of microstructure, precipitates and properties of creep-resistant 2.25Cr-1Mo-0.25V weld metal
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T1 - Effect of post weld heat treatment on the interplay of microstructure, precipitates and properties of creep-resistant 2.25Cr-1Mo-0.25V weld metal
AU - Fleißner-Rieger, Hannah
AU - Musi, Michael
AU - Albu, Mihaela
AU - Krein, Ronny
AU - Schnitzer, Ronald
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022
PY - 2022/7/5
Y1 - 2022/7/5
N2 - For the application in heavy wall pressure vessels such as hydrocracking reactors in the petrochemical industry, creep-resistant 2.25Cr–1Mo-0.25V steel is usually joined via submerged-arc welding. To ensure a long service lifetime at elevated temperatures and high pressures, the steel plates and weldments must maintain a beneficial combination of toughness and creep strength for several years. One approach to adjust the weldments' mechanical properties is to perform a post-weld heat treatment (PWHT).This study is dedicated to the impact of the PWHT-temperature and -time on the complex interplay of microstructure, precipitates and mechanical properties of 2.25Cr–1Mo-0.25V weld metal. The mechanical testing showed that a higher PWHT-temperature increases the weld metal's impact toughness and ductility while simultaneously decreasing its strength and creep resistance. The high-resolution investigation with transmission electron microscopy and high-energy X-ray diffraction demonstrated that this is linked to accelerated recovery processes and severe coarsening of fine MX carbonitrides. At lower PHWT-temperatures, the absolute increase of the MX phase fraction during PWHT and the MX coarsening is less pronounced, allowing the MX carbonitrides to effectively contribute to precipitation hardening by maintaining their fine size. Besides MX carbonitrides, the weld metal consists of Cr-rich M7C3 and M23C6 as well as a substantial amount of Mo- and V-rich M2C carbides. The precipitate transformation sequence during PWHT was found to be M3C→M3C + MX + M7C3→M3C + MX + M7C3+M23C6+M2C→MX + M7C3+M23C6+M2C, whereas prolonged annealing times at higher PWHT-temperatures again lead to the dissolution of M7C3 in favor of MX.
AB - For the application in heavy wall pressure vessels such as hydrocracking reactors in the petrochemical industry, creep-resistant 2.25Cr–1Mo-0.25V steel is usually joined via submerged-arc welding. To ensure a long service lifetime at elevated temperatures and high pressures, the steel plates and weldments must maintain a beneficial combination of toughness and creep strength for several years. One approach to adjust the weldments' mechanical properties is to perform a post-weld heat treatment (PWHT).This study is dedicated to the impact of the PWHT-temperature and -time on the complex interplay of microstructure, precipitates and mechanical properties of 2.25Cr–1Mo-0.25V weld metal. The mechanical testing showed that a higher PWHT-temperature increases the weld metal's impact toughness and ductility while simultaneously decreasing its strength and creep resistance. The high-resolution investigation with transmission electron microscopy and high-energy X-ray diffraction demonstrated that this is linked to accelerated recovery processes and severe coarsening of fine MX carbonitrides. At lower PHWT-temperatures, the absolute increase of the MX phase fraction during PWHT and the MX coarsening is less pronounced, allowing the MX carbonitrides to effectively contribute to precipitation hardening by maintaining their fine size. Besides MX carbonitrides, the weld metal consists of Cr-rich M7C3 and M23C6 as well as a substantial amount of Mo- and V-rich M2C carbides. The precipitate transformation sequence during PWHT was found to be M3C→M3C + MX + M7C3→M3C + MX + M7C3+M23C6+M2C→MX + M7C3+M23C6+M2C, whereas prolonged annealing times at higher PWHT-temperatures again lead to the dissolution of M7C3 in favor of MX.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.msea.2022.143550
DO - 10.1016/j.msea.2022.143550
M3 - Article
VL - 850.2022
JO - Materials science and engineering: A, Structural materials: properties, microstructure and processing
JF - Materials science and engineering: A, Structural materials: properties, microstructure and processing
SN - 0921-5093
IS - 11 August
M1 - 143550
ER -