Development of a gall-resistant stainless-steel hardfacing alloy

Smith, Ryan; Doran, Marc; Gandy, David; Babu, Suresh; Wu, Leonardo; Ramirez, Antonio J.; Anderson, Peter M.

doi:10.1016/j.matdes.2018.01.020

Development of a gall-resistant stainless-steel hardfacing alloy

Journal Article · Thu Jan 11 23:00:00 EST 2018 · Materials & Design

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2018.01.020· OSTI ID:1471842

Smith, Ryan ^[1]; Doran, Marc ^[2]; Gandy, David ^[3]; Babu, Suresh ^[4]; Wu, Leonardo ^[5]; Ramirez, Antonio J. ^[2]; Anderson, Peter M. ^[2]

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA (United States)
The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States). Dept. Materials Science and Engineering
The Electric Power Research Institute, Charlotte, NC (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory-LNNano, Campinas, SP (Brazil)

Here, this work details the development of a new cobalt-free stainless steel powder metallurgy hardfacing alloy designed to replace Stellite 6, a cobalt-based hardfacing alloy used in nuclear valve applications. The fundamental strategy centers on alloying stainless steels with up to 0.5 wt% nitrogen, which is shown to increase both the volume fraction of hard phase precipitates and the strain-hardening rate of the matrix. The resultant alloy, Nitromaxx, exhibits galling performance that is comparable to Stellite 6, up to 350 °C. This performance is attributed to the suppression of strain localization events associated with galling. In particular, transmission electron microscopy and diffraction measurements from tensile tests show that the nitrogen addition decreases the calculated matrix stacking fault energy and enhances both deformation-induced martensite transformation at room temperature and deformation twinning at elevated temperature. These strain-hardening mechanisms, coupled with the increase in precipitate volume fraction, effectively suppress localization and enhance galling resistance up to 350 °C. Lastly, the enhanced galling resistance cannot be rationalized in terms of tensile stress-strain response alone.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1471842

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 23121177

Journal Information:: Materials & Design, Journal Name: Materials & Design Journal Issue: C Vol. 143; ISSN 0264-1275

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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