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Life Management of Alloy 625 Components

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Alloy 625

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 Alloy 625 is being used for various applications in the chemical, marine, nuclear, power generation, and aerospace industries. Most of these applications are at temperatures in the intermediate temperature range, at which the alloy undergoes microstructure modifications and, consequently, mechanical properties changes below the codal requirements. Fortunately, in most cases, the degradations can be reversed to rejuvenate the lost properties. This chapter provides details of property deterioration due to such microstructural changes and assesses the alloy damage during in-service inspection of plants. The chapter also provides criteria for the damage evaluation for various destructive and non-destructive testing.

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Singh, J.B. (2022). Life Management of Alloy 625 Components. In: Alloy 625 . Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1562-8_8

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