Development of a single loop EPR test method and its relation to grain boundary microchemistry for alloy 600 |
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Authors: | Vivekanand Kain Yutaka Watanabe |
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Affiliation: | Department of Machine Intelligence and Systems Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba-Ku, Sendai 980 8579, Japan |
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Abstract: | A single loop electrochemical potentiokinetic reactivation test method has been developed for alloy 600 that produces good passivation on all the surfaces, good etching during the reactivation scan and no appreciable pitting. It is able to quantify and discriminate between samples with a wide range of degree of sensitization. The Pa value correlates well with the minimum level of chromium in the depletion regions at the grain boundaries. It has been shown that the width of the attacked regions is much larger than the width of chromium depletion regions and it does not show any direct correlation with either depth or width or with a volume parameter of chromium depletion regions. It has been shown that the chromium carbides are not attacked during the test and that the intragranular regions attacked during the test are the sites of chromium carbides in the grain matrix. A modified Pa parameter is shown to be sensitive down to 7.5 wt% chromium in the depletion regions and indicates that the intragranular carbides have shallower depletion profiles than those at grain boundaries. Comparison of the results of the single loop and the double loop tests showed a good correlation. |
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Keywords: | C0400 C0800 G0300 N0300 |
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