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Grain boundary engineering of titanium-stabilized 321 austenitic stainless steel

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Grain boundary engineering (GBE) primarily aims to prevent the initiation and propagation of intergranular degradation along grain boundaries by frequent introduction of coincidence site lattice (CSL) boundaries into the grain boundary networks in materials. It has been reported that GBE is effective to prevent intergranular corrosion due to sensitization in unstabilized 304 and 316 austenitic stainless steels, but the effect of GBE on intergranular corrosion in stabilized austenitic stainless steels has not been clarified. In this study, a twin-induced GBE utilizing optimized thermomechanical processing with small pre-strain and subsequent annealing was applied to introduce very high frequencies of CSL boundaries into a titanium-stabilized 321 austenitic stainless steel. The resulting steel showed much higher resistance to intergranular corrosion after sensitization subsequent to carbon re-dissolution heat treatment during the ferric sulfate–sulfuric acid test than the as-received one. The high CSL frequency resulted in a very low percolation probability of random boundary networks in the over-threshold region and remarkable suppression of intergranular corrosion during GBE.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (No. 21246104), a Grant-in-Aid for Science Research (S) (No. 19106013), a Grant-in-Aid for Science Research (S) (No. 19106017), and a grant from the Global COE Program “Materials Integration (International Center of Education and Research), Tohoku University,” MEXT, Japan. The authors wish to thank to Mr. E. Nagashima and Mr. A. Honda for their technical assistance and useful discussion.

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    Present address: Advanced Technology Research Laboratories, Nippon Steel Corporation, 20-1 Shintomi, Futtsu, 293-8511, Japan

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  1. Department of Materials Processing, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-02 Aramaki-aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan

    K. Kurihara, H. Kokawa, S. Sato, Y. S. Sato & H. T. Fujii

  2. Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Oho, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305-0801, Japan

    M. Kawai

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Kurihara, K., Kokawa, H., Sato, S. et al. Grain boundary engineering of titanium-stabilized 321 austenitic stainless steel. J Mater Sci 46, 4270–4275 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-010-5244-3

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