Properties of Cast 17-4 PH Stainless Steel
Properties of Cast 17-4 PH Stainless Steel
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STAINLESS STEEL *
H. J. Rack
Mechanical Metallurgy Division 5835
Sandia National Laboratories,t Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION. 7
EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE. 9
Physical Properties. ~ .............................. . 9
Mechanical Behavior. . 10
REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2
APPENDIX A . . . . . . . . .· . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
APPENDIX B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7
APPENDIX C . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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INTRODUCTION
forms, that is rolled plate, forgings, etc. There are, however, many
included.
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Figure l . Top and Side Views of 17-4 PH Stainless Steel Seal Casting.
8
EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE
reactor spent fuel shipping container. As such, the seal must operate
Physical Properties
were made with a single fused silica pushrod dilatometer, again main-
sivity technique (13). Knowing the specific heat, Cp and the thermal
A = ap e p (l)
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Mechanical Behavior
measured over the temperature range 233 to 1073K using standard ultra-
sonic techniques (14). These techniques require that the travel time,
V - L/t
thermal [Link] data described above. '!'he elastic moduli were calcu-
lated from the longitudinal velocity, VL' and the shear velocity, Vs'
from
G v2 (2)
p s
1 v2 ;v2]
[ 1 - 1" L s
\) = ( 4)
[1 - 2 2
v L'1v ::; ]
ratio and density, respectively. Again, the latter was corrected for
strain rates of l.J x 10- 6 and 1.2 sec- 1 over a temperature range 215
to 435K.
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LMPRESSIVE
AXIS
where the final stress intensity during precracking, Kf' was always
Kd. Both the notched and fatigue precracked samples were tested using
an instrumented impact machine with the initial impact velocity being
When the fracture was elastic, that is, no general yielding was
observed, the fracture toughness, Kid' was obtained from the precracked
7/2 9/2]
_ 37.6(w) + 38.7(w) (5)
When general yielding was observed, i.e., at the higher test tempera-
- 1/2 (6)
KJD - (EJ Id)
(7)
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
General
stainless steel castings since their presence has not been reported
Table 1
13
Figure 3. Optical Micrograph of 17-4 PH Stainless Steel
Cdsting. White Areas 6-Ferrite Stringers; Darker
Matrix Aged a -Martensite. Original Magnification
lOOX.
14
Figure 5. Transmission Electron Micrograph of a-Ferrite
Stringer Containing Rod-Shaped Cu-Rich Precipitate.
Oriqinal Magnification: 52,000X.
15
Figure 6. X-Ray Energy Dispersive Spectra From (a) a-
Ferrite Matrix and (b) Rod-Shaped Particles
Shown in Fig. 5.
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Physical Properties
in Table 2 and plotted in Figure 7. This figure shows that the thermal
by the individual data points~ agreed quite well with the average
data (19-21), the latter being described by the dashed line in Figure
7.
stainless steel was not observed when the thermal properties were
through 10, with the dashed lines in Figures 8 and 10 representing the
between the two products may be due to the increased volume fraction
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Table 2
279 -[Link]
?,98 0.000
474 0.194
476 0.199
568 0. 313
626 0.373
627 0. 372
643 0.409
776 0.546
791 0.562
783 0.~136
~17 0.711
919 0.671
925 0.703
1064 0.824
1212 1.107
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Table 3
-1 K-1)
TemEE7rature (K) SJ2ecific Heat (W sec 9:ffi
350 0.4750
375 0.4884
400 0.4973
425 0.5054
450 0.5147
46,0 0.5220
475 0.5228
~00. 0.5335
525 0.5396
550 0.5477
575 0.5548
600 0.5636
62~ 0.5726
650 0.5805
675 0.5885
700 0.5978
725 0.6080
750 0. fil4.1
775. 0.6594
795 0.6812
800 0.6875
825 0. 7246
850 0.7409
875 0.7576
qoo 0. 7(,72
925 0.7789
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Table 4
Table 5
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200. 400 600 800 1000 .1200 1400
TEMPERATURE (K)
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Figure 8. Specific Heat of 17-4 PH Stainless Steel as a Function
of Ternperatl,Ire. Data Points from 17-4 PH Casting,
unshed Line lin Average Obtained trom Wroughl 17-4 PH
Stainless Steel (21).
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TEMPERATURE (K)
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Mechanical Behavior
shear modulus and Poisson's ratio for wrought 17-4 PH stainless steel
between the room temperature values of the Young's modulus anq Poisson's
ratio for cast and wrought 17-4 PH stainless steel was quite good.
high~r than those reported for wrought 17-4 PH stainless steel. Not-
withstanding these differences the results all indicate that both the
Young's moduli and the shear moduli decrease with increasing tempera-
ture.
casting have been summarized in Figures 12 and 13. These results show
and strain rate. Below T , the compressive and tensile yield strengths
c
increase with either decreasing temperature or increasing strain rate.
of increase dcr/dT was -0.44 MPa/K, while at high strain rates, e.g.,
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Table 6
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Table 7
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temperature and strain rate. Figure 12(b) shows that the uniform
rate. This figure further indicates that, except at the lowest strain
l.n x 10
-4 s -1 , and the highest test temperature, 433K, the
rat.~,
that the tensile failure mode was, in all cases, characterized by the
although both the values of the upper shelf energy and rate of energy
averaged cast 17-4 PH, the T 20 J transition temperature would have been
parison ot the room temperature Charpy impe:wt t!Ht!L~Y [Link] for the
averaged cast 17-4 PH (E-ll joules) with that reported for wrought 17-4
PH aged at 866K (7) (E .... 37 joules) suggests that cast 17-4 PH will
absorb two-thirds less energy during impact loading than will wrought
17-4 Ph.
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Figure 14. Scanning Electron Fractographs of Cast 17-4 PH
Stainless Steel Tensile Samples Tested at:
(a) € = 1.6 x 10- 4 s-1, T = 233K;
(b) ~ = 1.6 x lo-4 s-1, T = 423K; and
(c) € = 1.2 s-1, T = 423K.
Original Magnification: 400X.
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TEMPERATURE ( K )
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the fracture toughness of the averaged 17-4 PH casting, even at the
(27), KIC - 130 MPam 1/2 . These observations reinforce those of Floreen
applicable to castings, that is, the latter's Charpy impact values are
may be high.
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Figure 17. [Link]':J ElectL·un Fractrographs of V-Notch Charpy
Samples Tested at (a) 423K and (b) 233K.
Original Magnification: 400X.
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$U~RY AND CONCLUSIONS
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REFERENCES
'10.
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17. w. L. Server and A. S. Tetelman, The Use of Pre-Cracked Charpy
Specimens to Determine Dynamic Fracture Toughness, Eng. Fract.
I , I
Mec;:h., _!, 367 (1972).
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APPE~DIX B
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452
f. = 1.6 K 10-4 s- 1
339
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STRAIN (PCT)
1020
918
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612
TEST TEMPERATURE: -233K
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ENG. STRESS-STRAIN
a; TEST TEMPERATURE 423K
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ENGINEERING STRAIII
TRUE STRAIN
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ENGINEERING STRAIN
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