Abstract
The purpose of this work was to study the hot-corrosion behavior of dissimilar weldments of AISI 304 stainless steel and AISI 1015 low carbon steel assembled with consumable-309L stainless steel wires at 750 °C in static air with 2 mg/cm^2 mixture of various ratios of NaCl-Na_2SO_4 deposits. It was found that the HAZ of weldments revealed the coarse grain structure and the around 304 HAZ. Moreover, the carbon migrated from the substrate of low carbon steel of the higher chromium weld metal side and formed chromium carbide adjacent to the interface between the low carbon steel HAZ and weld metal. The results of hot corrosion showed that both 304 and 309L appeared the subscale attack while low carbon steel revealed the uniform corrosion. The depth of attack increased with increasing exposure duration of time. The 309L weld metal had the smallest metal loss because of its high chromium content. Due to sensitized reaction the 304 HAZ had the highest metal loss and the total depth of attack. The galvanic effect to the low carbon steel resulted in a serious corrosion with sufficient molten salts at low carbon steel HAZ/WM interface.
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