Titanium Nitride and Niobium Carbide in the Ferritic Stainless Steel and the Influence to Casting Macrostructure

Abstract

Titanium and niobium were applied to stable the carbon or nitrogen which dissolved ferritic stainless steel for improving the anti-corrosion performance. The titanium nitride and niobium carbide had been formed during solidification processing. For understanding those precipitates how to influence the casting macrostructure, three steels that had different content of niobium and the fixed content of titanium had been designed. The result showed the casting macrostructure of ingot and the grain size of the centre-equiaxed crystal zones had different tendency. And the titanium nitride and niobium carbide had interacted.