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the high" stresses created by the- a -cyclic temperature service. It was

also found that a sharp increase inhardness occurred in a narrow bandin the weld metal adjacent to the

T!T|_fusion line. The formation of car-UN^ bi de precipitates in this region

caused the hardness increase and in-dicates carbon diffusion from the.ferritic steel to the weld metal.

A as An exact failure mechanism could notbe determined from this examination,but it was reaffirmed that transi-tion joint design is very important.The basic concerns that have beenrecognized for many years are stillapplicable, including: (1) Select filler metals that\ ' minimize migration of carbon from the ferritic

T W T ' steel;MARGIN- (2) Minimize the differences

: L__iR.jpoefficients .of .thermal! expansion between the1 metals in the joint; and

(3) Minimize stresses at thej weld interfaces.

3. TRANSITION JOINT DESIGNA study^ ' was conducted to estab-lish the design of piping transitionjoints for a liquid metal fast breederreactor plant. The basic materialsto be joined are 2 1/4 Cr-1 Mo fer-fitic steel and type 316 austeniticstainless steel. The mismatch inthermal expansion properties ofthese two materials is the majorcause of high stresses at the ferriticsteel-austenitic steel weld jointduring cyclic temperature service.

The least severe stress situationoccurs when the joint is maintainedat a constant temperature, since thestress level will decrease by relax-ation, which in turn lowers thecreep rate and the joint reachesequilibrium. When large temperature N

..." "fluctuations"cannotHbe avoided, asin this case, the effect of the differ-ence in thermal expansion must bereduced. A practical way of doingthis is to separate the dissimilar -C,INmetal pair with a material or seriesof materials whose coefficient of : .thermal expansion (CTE) are betweenthose of the two to be joined. Theeffect of this is to distribute thedifference in CTE over several inter-faces so that the mismatch at anyone interface is acceptably low.The coefficients of thermal expan-sion were examined for a number of :-.materials considered for. use in the MA,joint between 2 1/4 Cr-1 Mo and type316 stainless steel (Fig. 3 ) . Anattractive candidate for an inter-mediate material is alloy 800H.Other materials were ruled out be- :cause they were not approved for usein this application by ASME Code Case1592 which limits materials to 2 1/4Cr-1 Mo steel, alloy 800H, and types304 or 316 stainless steel. ' It wasalso desirable to select weldingfiller metals which have a CTE be-tween the base materials to bejoined in each joint.A welding filler metal meeting ANSspecification ERNiCr-3 (commonlyknown as Inconel 82) has a CTE

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