Effect of cooling rate and forced convection on as-cast structure of 2205 duplex stainless steel  

作　　者：Cheng Zhang Hong-gang Zhong Cong-sen Wu Jie Ni Qi-jie Zhai 

机构地区：[1]Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Metallurgy & Materials Processing, Shanghai University

出　　处：《China Foundry》2015年第1期32-38,共7页中国铸造（英文版）

基　　金：financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51227803);the National Key Technology R&D Program of China(No.2012BAE04B02)

摘　　要：To forecast the as-cast structure and ferrite-austenite phase ratio of 2205 duplex stainless steel(DSS), the effects of cooling rate and forced convection were observed in a high-vacuum resistance furnace in which the forced convection was created by the rotation of the crucible. The as-cast structure of all 2205 DSS samples is full equiaxed grains, and the microstructure consists of a great amount of desirable intra-granular austenite inside the continuous ferrite grain matrix, besides Widmanstatten austenite and grain boundary austenite. The ferrite grain size decreases gradually with the increase in the cooling rates(20 to 60 oC·min-1) or the forced convection, while the ferrite grains of the samples solidified with a strong convection are barely changed when the cooling rate is below 50 oC·min-1. Moreover, a small grain size is beneficial for the austenite formation but the influence is not very obvious under the cooling rates in the range of 5 to 50 oC·min-1. Compared with grain size, the cooling rate has a greater influence on the final ferrite content. A model based on the experimental results is established to predict the ferrite content, which could be approximated by δ(%) = 20.5·exp(c/80.0) + 0.34 d +34.1, where cis the cooling rate in oC·min-1 and d is the grain size in mm. By using this model, the dependence of the final ferrite content on cooling rate and grain size is well described.To forecast the as-cast structure and ferrite-austenite phase ratio of 2205 duplex stainless steel（DSS）, the effects of cooling rate and forced convection were observed in a high-vacuum resistance furnace in which the forced convection was created by the rotation of the crucible. The as-cast structure of all 2205 DSS samples is full equiaxed grains, and the microstructure consists of a great amount of desirable intra-granular austenite inside the continuous ferrite grain matrix, besides Widmanstatten austenite and grain boundary austenite. The ferrite grain size decreases gradually with the increase in the cooling rates（20 to 60 oC·min-1） or the forced convection, while the ferrite grains of the samples solidified with a strong convection are barely changed when the cooling rate is below 50 oC·min-1. Moreover, a small grain size is beneficial for the austenite formation but the influence is not very obvious under the cooling rates in the range of 5 to 50 oC·min-1. Compared with grain size, the cooling rate has a greater influence on the final ferrite content. A model based on the experimental results is established to predict the ferrite content, which could be approximated by δ（%） = 20.5·exp（c/80.0） ＋ 0.34 d ＋34.1, where cis the cooling rate in oC·min-1 and d is the grain size in mm. By using this model, the dependence of the final ferrite content on cooling rate and grain size is well described.

关 键 词：duplex stainless steel cooling rate grain size forced convection ferrite content 

分 类 号：TG142.71[一般工业技术—材料科学与工程]