StressReliefCrackinginAdvancedSteelMaterial-Overview.pdfVIP

Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2009 Vol II WCE 2009, July 1 - 3, 2009, London, U.K. Stress Relief Cracking in Advanced Steel Material- Overview S P Ghiya , D V Bhatt , R V Rao th 4 generation steel: 1980s to 1990s - Improved temper Abstract— This paper summarizes the quality problems of embrittlement characteristics by restricting J factor up to 100. the weldability of advanced vanadium modified Cr, Mo alloy Toughness property further improved to 54 J at -32 ºC. steel material, during fabrication of reactor, pressure vessel Presently 5th generation steel is in use. Mid 1990s onwards being used for Refinery, Petrochemical, Chemical plants. advanced 2.25% Chromium and 1% Molybdenum steel Authors have focused on stress relief cracking occurred in weld with improved toughness up to 54 J at -40 ºC is developed. metal and HAZ after stress relieving heat treatment of the weld. From the literature review , it appears that till date significant Additionally 2.25 Cr, 1Mo and 0.25V material with amount of efforts are made to understand the stress relief improved following properties were developed by leading cracking, occurring in alloy steel .However considerable work steel suppliers. is still being done on this quality issue to understand root cause • High tensile property at elevated temperature of stress relief cra