Seamless stainless steel pipe solutions
The solution temperature is mainly determined by chemical composition. In general, the solution temperature should increase for those containing many kinds of alloy elements or with high alloy. Especially for those that contains high steel, like manganese, molybdenum, nickel, silicon. Only by increasing the solution temperature can we dissolve and soften them. But for stabilized steels such as 321 stainless steel pipe, when the solution temperature is high, the carbide of the stabilizing elements are fully dissolved in the austenite and precipitate in the grain boundary with the form of Cr23C6 after cooling. That can cause intergranular corrosion. We often adopt the lowest solution temperature for carbide(Tic and NbC) of the stabilizing elements which can't be dissolved or treated by solid solution. For seamless stainless steel pipe, the three elements of the solution treatment are temperature, holding time and cooling rate. What is the role of solution treatment of seaml...