Behaviors of Embrittlement and Softening in Heat Affected Zone of High Strength X90 Pipeline Steels

AUTOR(ES)

Gu, Yu

FONTE

Soldag. insp.

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

15/08/2019

RESUMO

Abstract The embrittlement and softening behaviors in heat affected zone of X90 pipeline steel were studied, and the influence of weld thermal cycle on microstructure and mechanical properties were discussed by combining the effect of peak temperature on the phase transition point (Ar3). Results show that there are embrittlement and softening zones existed in heat affected zone of X90 pipeline steel. The peak temperature greatly affected the austenitizing and its grain size, thereby affected phase transition during cooling process. The embrittlement in critical heat affected zone at 750 °C was caused by brittle bainite and M /A islands formed during cooling, because little austenite was formed during heating. While, the embrittlement in coarse grain heat affected zone was caused by austenite grain coarsen, which transformed to the coarse bainite after cooling. The softening zone attributed to the polygonal ferrite and granular ferrite after cooling, which came from fine and ununiformed austenite formed during reheating process. Ar3 decreased with the increase of Cu, Cr or Mo content in steel, and the BF content in CGHAZ and GB and AF content in FGHAZ increased.

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