Evaluation of the Effect of the Heat Input in the Super Stainless Steel Deposition by Powder Plasma Process

Abstract

The powder plasma process is one of the latest on weld overlay application and it has as main feature getting the dilution control. The weld overlay with the Super Duplex Stainless Steels is an interesting alternative for the construction and repair of equipment for applications in severe corrosive medium corrosion, allowing reach the desirable characteristics: good resistance corrosion and mechanical properties. Soon, the main objective of the present work is to evaluate the ferrite content in the weld metal and mechanical properties through microhardness profile in weld overlay of C-Mn pipes with UNS S32760 deposition by powder plasma process. Three welding energy levels, varying the speed or welding current, had been carried in the pipes with SDSS deposition. Later, it had carried geometry analysis and quantification of ferrite content in the weld metal and microhardness profile survey. The variation of welding current caused changes in the geometry of weld bead, being the change of welding current provided the most significant changes. Higher levels of heat input resulted in the reduction of the ferrite content of the weld metal. Regarding to the microhardness, just the condition of higher level of welding current high enough levels presented microhardness on weld metal.

Key-words: Plasma; Superduplex; Weld overlay