Thermal ageing and short-range ordering of Alloy 690 between 350 and 550 °C

Roman Mouginot, Teemu Sarikka, Mikko Heikkilä, Mykola Ivanchenko, Ulla Ehrnstén, Young Suk Kim, Soo Kimsung, Hannu Hänninen

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    Abstract

    Thermal ageing of Alloy 690 triggers an intergranular (IG) carbide precipitation and is known to promote an ordering reaction causing lattice contraction. It may affect the long-term primary water stress corrosion cracking (PWSCC) resistance of pressurized water reactor (PWR) components. Four conditions of Alloy 690 (solution annealed, cold-rolled and/or heat-treated) were aged between 350 and 550 °C for 10 000 h and characterized. Although no direct observation of ordering was made, variations in hardness and lattice parameter were attributed to the formation of short-range ordering (SRO) in all conditions with a peak level at 420 °C, consistent with the literature. Prior heat treatment induced ordering before thermal ageing. At higher temperatures, stress relaxation, recrystallization and ?-Cr precipitation were observed in the cold-worked samples, while a disordering reaction was inferred in all samples based on a decrease in hardness. IG precipitation of M23C6 carbides increased with increasing ageing temperature in all conditions, as well as diffusion-induced grain boundary migration (DIGM).
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)56-66
    JournalJournal of Nuclear Materials
    Volume485
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2017
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Keywords

    • Alloy 690
    • Thermal ageing
    • Short-range ordering
    • Ni2Cr
    • Carbide precipitation
    • Cold work
    • Strain localization
    • Ni Cr

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