Aging of AISI Type 304 Austenitic Stainless Steel Containing Nitrogen and Its Influence on Stress Corrosion Cracking

Resisting Hydrogen Embrittlement

“…For these elements, planarity is believed to occur not as a result of a SFE change, but rather as a result of dislocation cutting of clusters, enforcing planar arrays (Thompson and Bernstein, 1975;Swann, 1963;Kowaka and Fujikawa, 1972). The deleterious effect of Ν is found to be enhanced by low-temperature aging (Eckel and Clevinger, 1970), supporting the importance of clustering. A further ex ample of this behavior is presented in Fig.…”

Effect of nitrogen content in sensitised austenitic stainless steel on the crack growth rate in simulated BWR environment

“…Dutta et al [30] have reported that higher nitrogen levels (0.19 wt.%) in type 316L stainless steel lead to a greater DOS due to chromium nitride precipitation as compared to the SS with 0.16 wt.% nitrogen. In some of the studies [31,32] it has been reported that presence of nitrogen in type 304 austenitic SS results in earlier crack initiation and higher CGR in boiling magnesium chloride solution. It has also been reported that nitrogen addition up to 0.16 wt.% reduces susceptibility to IGSCC in sensitised type 304 stainless steel in sodium sulphate added water at 250°C [29].…”