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PURPOSE :-

The specific procedure defines and justifies the actual methodology for solution annealing of
austenitic stainless steel
1.0 DEFINATION :Annealing is heating, next maintaining a certain time at temperature and cool regularly after
reaching the desired properties. Cooling should be done at a certain cooling rate, so that the
Achieved properties are not adversely affected. So it is a process where a work piece is
deliberately exposed to a temperature-time-atmosphere process in order to reach certain desired
properties.
1.1 METHODLOGY FOR SOLUTION ANNEALING:Annealing of work pieces can be performed in different types of atmospheres: air, protective gas
or vacuum. Heat & Surface Treatment and Mamesta apply annealing processes in all these
Atmospheres, and can execute both standard and customer specified annealing processes.
Annealing in air is usually the cheapest option, but the disadvantage is that the surface of the
work pieces will oxidize. In general, this means discolored work pieces. By annealing under
protective gas or vacuum, no oxidation or other undesirable surface reactions come about and
the surface remains bright (bright annealing). Annealing in vacuum even has the advantage that
the heating and cooling can be better controlled, which is favorable with regards to
The dimensions (shape and dimensional stability) of the products. Furthermore, after annealing in
vacuum, it is possible to cool with overpressure nitrogen or argon so that a faster cooling
compared to the annealing under protective gas or annealing in air can be realized.
Solution annealing ensures that secretions in the material lattice present in the material are
dissolved. This creates a homogeneous structure. After solution annealing, secretion or
precipitation hardening is often applied so that the material adjacent to the solution annealing
Is heated to a temperature where the material elements that are in solution lattice. This improves
the mechanical properties.

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After hot forming it is necessary to perform a full solution annealing followed by rapid quenching
to fully restore the mechanical and corrosion resistance properties. The work piece should be
brought above minimum solution annealing temperature and held long enough to dissolve any
intermetallic precipitates. A conservative guidelines is that the holding time at temperature
should be comparable to the total time the piece was held in temperature range subsequent to
previous full anneal the part should be water quenched from the solution annealing
temperature it should not be allowed to spend several minutes in the range while being
transferred to the quench location after this final annealed. Minimum solution annealing
temperature. For stainless steel is been summarized in table 1
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TIME TEMPERATURE TRANSFORMATION CURVE:-

TTT Diagram is a plot of temperature versus the logarithm of time for steel alloy of definite
composition.
It is used to determine when transformations begin and end for an isothermal heat treatment of
a previously austenitized alloy.
TTT diagram indicates when a specific transformation starts and ends and it also shows what
percentage transformation of austenite at a particular temperature is achieved.

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TABLE 1 FOR HOT FIRMING TEMPRATURE RANGE AND MINIMUM SOAKING

TEMPERATURE FOR COMMON AUSTENITIC GRADES:-

GRADE UNS NO

HOT FORMING TEMPERATURE RANGE MINIMUM SOAKING TEMPERATURE

C
F
C
F

2304

S32304

1150-950

2100-1740

980

1800

2205

S32205

1230-950

2250-1740

1040

1900

2507

S32750

1230-1025

2250-1875

1050

1920

304

S30400

1205-925

2200-1700

1040

1900

316

S31600

1205-925

2200-1700

1040

1900

F53

S32750

1100-1250

2012-2282

1025

1880

A105N

K03504

926-1204

2200-1700

926

1700

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5.0 PROPERTIES:

Reduction of stress.
Improved material structure
Improved magnetic properties.
Reduction of hardness possible.
Improved Welding properties.
Improved corrosion resistance.
Good Dimensional and shape accuracy.
Clean process parts remain bright

6.0 FIGURE 01

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