Assessment of the Hot-Cracking Susceptibility of Welded Joints of the 7CrMoVTiB10-10 Bainitic Steel Used in Heat Exchangers

Janusz Adamiec ()
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Janusz Adamiec: Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, 40-019 Katowice, Poland; janusz.adamiec@polsl.pl

Energies, 2022, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-21

Abstract: Bainitic steel containing approx. 2.25% Cr and 0.6 Mo with micro-additions of V, Ti, and B, designated as 7CrMoVTiB10-10 (T/P24), is one of the new construction materials used in new supercritical power units. The weldability of 7CrMoVTiB10-10 is defined as the hot-cracking susceptibility, it should be stated that the hot cracking in the welded joints of 7CrMoVTi10-10 is determined by phenomena occurring in the high-temperature brittleness range (HTBR). In this work, the HTBR is established for both the base material and welding conditions, taking into account the critical temperature-strain intensity (CST) and the critical strain speed (CSS). The HTBR for 7CrMoVTi10-10 is 122 °C wide and covers temperatures from 1394 °C to 1516 °C. Under imposed deformation conditions (typical during welding), the HTBR extends to a width of 293 °C towards lower temperatures, i.e., from 1516 °C to 1223 °C. The CSS = 0.83 1/s, the CST = 0.003 1/°C, and the R f index = 0.12, which can be adopted as the criteria for the susceptibility of 7CrMoVTiB 10-10 to hot cracking under imposed deformation conditions. The hot cracking in 7CrMoVTiB10-10 occurs as a result of the loss of cohesion by the thin liquid layer crystallising between the growing weld crystals. Such cracks appear when the CSS or the CST is exceeded within the HTBR.

Keywords: heat exchanger; bainitic steel; weldability of 7CrMoVTiB10-10 steel; cracking of heat exchangers; high-temperature brittleness range (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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