the aisi 316 l stainless steel (ss) specimens were exposed to passivation surface through two different processes including; holding in 40-vol% hno3 at temperature of 60 ºc for 30 min and 15-vol%h2so4 at ambient temperature for 1 hour. the corrosion behavior of specimens was evaluated in physiological solutions by electrochemical in vitro tests through linear and tafel polarization tests. cycli...

Two sodium-bonded, single phase (Uo.8PUo_2)C fueled. Type 316 stainless steel clad fuel elements were irradiated in EBR-II at heating rates of ~30 kW/ft to burnups of 3.7 and 5.0 at ." . No clad failures occurred as a result of the irradiation. Total fission gas release from the fuel was low. Thermal stresses in the fuel resulted in fuel splitting upon initial startup and general fuel fragmenta...

The phenomenon of corrosion in metallic materials such as 316 stainless steel (316SS), produce a degradation which is mainly represented by the lost of metallic properties. One way to study this phenomenon is analyzing microscope digital images of materials exposed to corrosive processes, and the analysis of electrochemical signals using electrochemical noise measurements. The traditional techn...

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) has been used to examine the plastic deformation of an ex-service 316 austenitic stainless steel at 297K and 823K at strain rates 3.5x10 -3 s -1 – 4x10 -7 s -1 . The distribution of local misorientations was found to depend on the imposed plastic strain following a lognormal distribution at true strains < 0.1 and a gamma distribution at strains > 0.1. At ...