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Microstructure and properties of 316L stainless steel foils for pressure sensor of pressurized water reactor

  • He, Qubo (College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University) ;
  • Pan, Fusheng (College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University) ;
  • Wang, Dongzhe (Chongqing Materials Research Institute Co., Ltd) ;
  • Liu, Haiding (National Engineering Research Center for Instrument Functional Materials) ;
  • Guo, Fei (College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology) ;
  • Wang, Zhongwei (College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology) ;
  • Ma, Yanlong (College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology)
  • Received : 2020.02.27
  • Accepted : 2020.06.05
  • Published : 2021.01.25
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Abstract

The microstructure and texture of three 316L foils of 25 ㎛ thickness, which were subjected to different manufacturing process, were systematically characterized using advance analytical techniques. Then, the electrochemical property of the 316L foils in simulated pressurized water reactor (PWR) solution was analyzed using potentiodynamic polarization. The results showed that final rolling strain and annealing temperature had evident effect on grain size, fraction of recrystallization, grain boundary type and texture distribution. It was suggested that large final rolling strain could transfer Brass texture to Copper texture; low annealing temperature could limit the formation of preferable orientations in the rolling process to reduce anisotropy. Potentiodynamic polarization test showed that all samples exhibited good corrosion performance in the simulated primary PWR solution.

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to acknowledge the National Science and Technology Major Project of China (Grant No. 2017ZX06004004) and the Science and Technology Major Project of China National Machinery Industry Corporation Ltd. (Grant No. SINOMAST-ZDZX-2019-03) for providing financial support to this work.

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