Corrosion and high temperature compressive strength behaviour of 17Cr ferritic ODS steel with addition of aluminium through vacuum hot pressing


Dharmalingam G., Sellamuthu P., Salunkhe S. S.

ADVANCES IN MATERIALS AND PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES, cilt.8, sa.3, ss.3105-3126, 2022 (ESCI, Scopus) identifier identifier

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The structural materials are essential for the present important advancements in economics, for reliability, safety, sustainability, etc., over presently operating reactor technologies of Generation IV reactors, advanced fast reactor core and fusion reactors. In order to avoid the release of radioactive fission products in the environment, the consistency of the cladding tube is necessary. Thus, increasing the operating temperature of these steels by oxide dispersion strengthening (ODS) makes them promising candidate materials. For the present study, the samples were prepared from the 430 L pre-alloyed powder using mechanical alloying through vacuum hot pressing. The hot-pressed alloys A, B, and C structural changes were examined through transmission electron microscope-energy dispersive spectroscopy (TEM-EDS) analysis and the mechanical properties, such as sintered density(g/cc), Vickers hardness (HV), compressive strength (650 degrees C), and elongation (%) were measured. The corrosion resistance was measured through an electrochemical corrosion test of the alloys A, B, and C. From the TEM-EDS analysis, it was observed that the nano oxide particles and complex oxides particles were uniformly distributed. Alloy A has a higher compressive strength of 1307 MPa when compared to alloy Band alloy C. Moreover, alloy Chas higher corrosion resistance was observed than alloys A& B.