Abstract
The corrosion resistance of Cr-containing alloy parts made by additive manufacturing can be significantly improved by a post-treatment of gas-phase-based infusion of concentrated interstitial solute (carbon and nitrogen). We demonstrate this universal approach for the example of low-temperature nitrocarburization by solid-reagent pyrolysis applied to Alloy 22 (UNS N06022) parts made by laser powderbed fusion. We show that the post-treatment improves the crevice-corrosion resistance of these parts, as well as the corrosion resistance of corresponding parts made from wrought Alloy 22 to surpass the maximum crevice corrosion test temperature specified in ASTM G48-D, whereas non-treated samples typically fail well below. Similarly, cyclic potentiodynamic polarization testing (ASTM G61-86) demonstrates that the post-treatment makes the additively manufactured alloy and the wrought alloy more corrosion-resistant than the non-treated wrought alloy.
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