Nickel-free austenitic stainless steels of exceptional strength and corrosion resistance
- Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech., Zurich (Switzerland). Inst. of Metallurgy
Both the price of nickel and the allergic reaction that it can cause to human beings make it desirable to develop and use nickel-free austenitic stainless steels. The steels should be austenitic so as to avoid ferro-magnetism, a condition which has to be fulfilled for a number of requirements, including its use as implants in the human body, for wrist watch cases and many others. The paper presents the development of a nickel-free steel containing 11 percent manganese, 17 percent chromium, 4 percent molybdenum, and 0.9 percent nitrogen. This austenitic stainless steel has exceptional strength and corrosion resistance. These properties could result in numerous applications of the steel. A limitation, however, is that the steel is not weldable.
- OSTI ID:
- 382588
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960389-; TRN: 96:025690
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) annual corrosion conference and exposition: water and waste water industries, Denver, CO (United States), 24-29 Mar 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Corrosion/96 conference papers; PB: [6615] p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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IRON BASE ALLOYS
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
CORROSION RESISTANCE
MANGANESE ALLOYS
CHROMIUM ALLOYS
MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS
NITROGEN ADDITIONS
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
DUCTILITY
DUCTILE-BRITTLE TRANSITIONS
YIELD STRENGTH
ELONGATION
CREVICE CORROSION
CHLORIDES
PITTING CORROSION
PHASE DIAGRAMS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA