Yu Jiangtao,Zhang Shucai,Zhou Jie,et al.The Effect of Composite Treatment with Boron and Cerium on Solidification and Precipitation of S32654 Stainless Steel[J].Special Steel,2025,46(06):95-103.
Yu Jiangtao,Zhang Shucai,Zhou Jie,et al.The Effect of Composite Treatment with Boron and Cerium on Solidification and Precipitation of S32654 Stainless Steel[J].Special Steel,2025,46(06):95-103. DOI: 10.20057/j.1003-8620.N250514.
The Effect of Composite Treatment with Boron and Cerium on Solidification and Precipitation of S32654 Stainless Steel
The high alloy content of super austenitic stainless steel brings excellent performance, but also leads to bottleneck problems such as coarse dendritic structure, severe segregation, and strong precipitation sensitivity. It is crucial to regulate the solidification structure and precipitation behavior of super austenitic stainless steel. In this paper, B and Ce composite treatment was carried out on the basis of super austenitic stainless steel S32654, and the effects of B and Ce composite treatment on solidification structure and aging precipitation behavior were systematically studied.The results showed that after composite treatment with 0.002% B and 0.035% Ce, during the solidification process, the inclusions all transform into Ce containing inclusions with increased number density and size, and no borides form; The dendritic structure is significantly refined, and the secondary dendrite spacing is reduced by 25%; The number of σ phases increases and the size significantly decreases; The segregation of Mo element significantly reduces, and the solidification structure is significantly improved. During the aging precipitation process, Ce significantly increases the role of the σ phase and Cr
2
N nucleation sites, slightly promoting their nucleation; B and Ce can jointly inhibit the growth of the σ phase, significantly reducing its size, but have little effect on the growth of Cr
2
N. Overall, the composite treatment of B and Ce has a good improvement effect on the solidification structure and aging precipitation of S32654.
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