Solidification sequences in stainless steel dissimilar alloy welds

H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia, S. A. David and J. M. Vitek

Abstract

A series of laser and gas tungsten arc welds traversing stainless steels fo different chemical compositions has been studied, to elucidate the role of austenite or ferrite nucleation and cooling rate on solidification behaviour. It has been found that a steel with a high Cr_EQ/Ni_EQ ration can be induced to solidify as metastable austenite by initiating the weld in a steel with a lower Cr_EQ/Ni_EQ ration in which the thermodynamically stable solidification mode is austenitic. The austenite dendrites are then found to continue growth across the weld junction into the undiluted regions of the high Cr_EQ/Ni_EQ ration material. By providing austenite particles in this way, nucleation is rendered unnecessary and it is found that solidification to metastable austenite can be induced at cooling rates significantly lower thanpreviously encountered. The results of these and other experiments in which the welding speed was changed during the experiment are interpreted to yield new information about the mechanisms of solidification and transformation in stainless steels during welding under conditions consistent with high cooling rates.

Materials Science and Technology , Vol. 7, 1991, pp. 50-61.

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