Abstract
The feasibility of applying the grain boundary engineering (GBE) processing to Alloy 690 tube manufacturing for improving the intergranular corrosion resistance was studied. Through small amount of deformation by cold drawing using a draw-bench on a production line and subsequent short time annealing at high temperature, the proportion of low Σ coincidence site lattice (CSL) grain boundaries of the Alloy 690 tube can be enhanced to about 75% which mainly were of Σ3 n ( n = 1, 2, 3, …) type. In this case, the grain boundary network (GBN) was featured by the formation of highly twinned large size grain-clusters produced by multiple twinning during recrystallization. All of the grains inside this kind of cluster had Σ3 n mutual misorientations, and hence all the boundaries inside the cluster were of Σ3 n type and formed many interconnected Σ3 n type triple junctions. The weight losses due to grain dropping during intergranular corrosion for the samples with the modified GBN were much less than that with conventional microstructure. Based on the characterization by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) technique, it was shown that the highly twinned large size grain-cluster microstructure played a key role in enhancing the intergranular corrosion resistance: (1) the large grain-cluster can arrest the penetration of intergranular corrosion; (2) the large grain-cluster can protect the underlying microstructure.
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