Published August 2009 | Version v1
Miscellaneous

Effects of surface treatments on microstructure in stainless steel

  • 1. Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd., Hitachi, Ibaraki (Japan)
  • 2. Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc., Tokyo (Japan)

Description

It is revealed that Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) on the surface of the L-grade stainless steels in Nuclear Power Plants is caused by heavily cold work of the materials. The microstructure, hardness and residual stress on the surface of the material are factors for SCC initiation. There are surface treatment methods that is effective reduction on SCC such as Flap Wheel (FW) polishing, Clean N Strip (CNS) polishing, Water Jet Peening (WJP) and Shot Peening (SP). In this paper, the characteristics of the surface cold worked layer of the L-grade stainless steels conducted by above-mentioned surface treatments are analyzed, and effects of the surface treatments on the surface layer are discussed. (author)

Part of:
Proceedings of the 6th annual meeting of Japan Society of Maintenology

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (Japanese)
Nippon hozen gakkai dai-6-kai gakujutsu koenkai yoshishu

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 6th annual meeting of Japan Society of Maintenology
Imprint Pagination
601 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 207-212

Conference

Title
6. annual meeting of Japan Society of Maintenology
Dates
3-5 Aug 2009
Place
Sapporo, Hokkaido (Japan)

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Notes
8 figs., 1 tab. Imprint:Nippon hozen gakkai dai-6-kai gakujutsu koenkai yoshishu