In spite of the excellent resistance of stainless steel (SS) towards uniform corrosion, overcoming various localized corrosion could be a real challenge. This work presents an analysis of the failure behavior of 316L SS air chiller tube with a peripheral crack used in a Qatari gas company in Qatar. Macroscopic failure characteristics were analyzed by means of visual inspection, digital imaging ...

In this paper, Zr(Hf)xCN coatings were deposited onto 316L stainless steel (316L SS) substrates at 400 °C using the radio-frequency (R.F.) magnetron sputtering technique with Hf-Zr-C composite target materials. The influence of Hf element content on microstructure, mechanical properties, and corrosion resistance platelet interaction surface then investigated. results indicate that depend their ...

Intergranular stress corrosion cracking has occurred in BWR environments in non-sensitised, cold-worked austenitic stainless steel materials. The affecting parameters are so far not fully known, but deformation mechanisms may be decisive. The effect of cold deformation and nitrogen content on the deformation behaviour of austenitic stainless steels was investigated. The materials were austeniti...

Experiments about single pit initiation and propagation were performed on 316L stainless steel with the aim to determine the pitting corrosion behaviour for nuclear waste containers. The experimental setup permits to control the pit development at will and to create reproducible single pits in three dimensions. Radial and deep evolutions of a disc shaped pit were studied for propagation times o...

This paper presents a multi-objective optimization of the laser milling process of micro-cavities for the manufacturing of drug eluting stents (DES). The diameter, depth and volume error are considered to be optimized in function of the process parameters including laser intensity, pulse frequency and scanning speed. A set of designed experiments is carried out in a pulsed Nd:YAG laser system u...

The purpose of this investigation is to examine the viability of using the sheet metal for forming applications. Forming limit diagram (FLD) composed of negative and positive minor strain with respect to major strain which occurs at directional zero strain with the critical thickness of sheet metal. The negative minor strain region of FLD is predicted by localized necking. However there is no d...

Abstract. The effect of building orientations, sample conditions, and loading ratio (R-value) are important factors in terms fatigue behavior. aim this paper is to investigate the that affect behavior additively manufactured laser powder-bed fusion (LPBF) 316L stainless steel. A statistical analysis was performed point significant insignificant with different samples R-value. This provides most...