Journal of Materials Research and Technology (Jan 2021)

Enhanced pitting resistance through designing a high-strength 316L stainless steel with heterostructure

  • Jiansheng Li,
  • Qingzhong Mao,
  • Ming Chen,
  • Wenbo Qin,
  • Xianke Lu,
  • Tong Liu,
  • Dingshun She,
  • Jiajie Kang,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Xiebin Zhu,
  • Yusheng Li

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10
pp. 132 – 137

Abstract

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A high-strength 316L stainless steel with heterostructure (HS) was used to explore its corrosion properties in 3.5wt.% NaCl solution at 25 °C. Compared with a conventional coarse-grained (CG) sample, the HS sample with the characteristic of that the recrystallized grains (RGs) were surrounded by ultrafine/nano-structures (UFS/NSs) exhibited an enhanced pitting resistance. This was ascribed to interrupted propagation of the stable corrosion pits in RGs by the surrounded UFS/NSs. The results in current work may provide a new strategy to improve corrosion properties by heterostructural designing.

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