Power Plant Steels: Remanent Life Assessment and the Approach to Equilibrium
H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia
University of Cambridge
Abstract
The steels used in the power generation industry are almost always given a severe tempering heat treatment before they enter service. This would, in most circumstances, give them a highly stable microstructure which is close to equilibrium. In fact, they undergo many changes over long periods of time. This paper is a review of some of the methods which exploit the changes in order to estimate the life that remains in alloys which are only partly exhausted.
4th International Charles Parsons Turbine Conference, Advances in Turbine Materials, Design and Manufacturing, eds A. Strang, W. M. Banks, R. D. Conroy and M. J. Goulette, Institute of Materials, London, 1997, 718-741.
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