Nippon Steel Corporation

Yuzo Hosoi

Seizaburo Abe

Yutaka Tsuchida

Shoji Murota

Shozo Sekino

Noboru Shinoda

Masao Kozima

Mizuo Sakakihara

A heat-resistant alloy suitable for welded structures, particularly suitable for nuclear reactors, and free from the adverse effect of the cobalt used therein, which alloy has a basic composition comprising; 0.01-0.2% C, not more than 0.50% Si, not more than 0.50% Mn, 10 to 25% Cr, not more than 0.030% B, not more than 0.50% Zr, not more than 20% of (Mo+1/2W), 0.001 to 0.04% Y, not more than 2.0% Al, and not more than 1.0% Ti, with the balance being Ni and unavoidable impurities.

Heat-resistant alloy for welded structures

There is provided a chromium-nickel austenitic stainless steel having improved resistance to intergranular stress corrosion cracking. The steel has low carbon and phosphorus content or carbon and phosphorus in solid solution fixed by niobium addition. Further resistance to transgranular stress corrosion cracking is realized with a low molybdenum content. The steel is particularly useful in applications involving exposure to high-temperature and high-pressure water and attack by chlorides.

Austenitic stainless steel having excellent resistance to intergranular

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