Abstract
Tensile deformation behaviours of unaged and thermal aged duplex stainless steels (DSS) were investigated at 350°C in order to understand the effects of long term thermal aging on the high temperature deformation behaviours of DSS. After aging for 20 000 h, the strength of DSS has a slight increase, the plasticity has a considerable decline, and the tensile fracture transfers from ductile to brittle. Nanoindentation tests indicate that ferrite has a considerable increase in hardness, and austenite has only a negligible increase with aging time. Thermal aging embrittlement is primarily concerned with ferrite. After long term thermal aging, spinodal decomposition and G-phase precipitation occur in ferrite and these reactions result in the dramatic decline of the ferrite phases' deformation ability. Cleavage cracks can easily initiate and propagate in ferrite of long term thermal aged DSS.
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