Published March 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

The role of cold work and applied stress on surface oxidation of 304 stainless steel

  • 1. Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Rd., Oxford OX1 3PH (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Winchester College, College Street, Winchester SO23 9LX (United Kingdom)
  • 3. Institute of Nuclear Safety System (INSS), 64 Sata, Mihama-cho, Mikata-gun, Fukui 919-1205 (Japan)

Description

Highlights: ► FIB 3D sequential sectioning is an ideal technique to characterize surface oxidation. ► 3D models of the oxide can be produced with nanometre resolution. ► The effects of stress and cold work in grain boundary oxidation have been analysed. ► At least three different oxidation modes are observed when stress is applied. - Abstract: FIB 3-dimensional (3D) sequential sectioning has been used to characterize environmental degradation of 304 stainless steels in pressurized water reactor (PWR) simulated primary water. In particular, the effects of cold work and applied stress on oxidation have been studied in detail. It was found that a description of the oxidation behaviour of this alloy is only complete if it is treated statistically, since it can suffer from high variability depending on the feature described.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2011.11.021

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.corsci.2011.11.021;
PII
S0010-938X(11)00639-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Corrosion Science
Journal Volume
56
Journal Page Range
p. 78-85
ISSN
0010-938X
CODEN
CRRSAA

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Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.