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Effect of Tempering Temperature on the Microstructure and Stress Corrosion Cracing Susceptibility of Ultra-High-Strength Mooring Steel

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Mooring chain steel has been widely used for stabilizing offshore platforms and suffers from stress corrosion cracking. Herein, the microstructure difference, its relation to strength and susceptibility of stress corrosion cracking after tempered at different temperatures have been studied. Result shows increasing tempering temperature increases the proportion of low value CSL boundaries, decreases the local misorientation angle and promotes the precipitation of carbides. These factors induced the decrease of SCC susceptibility at higher tempering temperature. The resistance to SCC at 640 °C tempering temperature is about 20% higher than that of 580 °C at − 1000 mVSCE. The main strengthening mechanism of the ultra-high-strength steel is ultra-fine grain strengthening mechanism, precipitation strengthening mechanism, and dislocation strengthening mechanism. Increasing tempering temperature from 580 to 640 °C decreases the yield strength by 85 MPa, which is mainly attributed to larger carbides size.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51871024). The authors would thank Prof. Yin Jiang (Jiangsu Asian Star Anchor Chain Co., Ltd.) for providing critical advice of this work.

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Liu, M., Guo, H., Liu, Z. et al. Effect of Tempering Temperature on the Microstructure and Stress Corrosion Cracing Susceptibility of Ultra-High-Strength Mooring Steel. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 30, 4217–4229 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-021-05764-7

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