TY - JOUR A1 - Schröpfer, Dirk A1 - Kromm, Arne A1 - Lausch, Thomas A1 - Rhode, Michael A1 - Wimpory, R. C. A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas T1 - Influence of welding stresses on relief cracking during heat treatment of a creep-resistant 13CrMoV steel: Part III - Assessment of residual stresses from small-scale to real component welds JF - Welding in the world N2 - For higher operational temperatures and pressures required in petrochemical plants, the modified 13CrMoV9-10 steel was developed providing high resistance against creep and compressed hydrogen. Extreme care during the welding procedure is necessary for this steel, attributed to low toughness, high strength in as-welded state, and increased susceptibility to stress relief cracking (SRC) during post-weld heat treatment (PWHT). Previous research of SRC in creep-resistant steels discussed mainly thermal and metallurgical factors. Few previous findings addressed the influences of welding procedure on crack formation during PWHT considering real-life manufacturing conditions. These investigations focus on effects of welding heat control on stresses during welding and subsequent PWHT operations close to realistic restraint and heat dissipation conditions using a special 3D testing facility, which was presented in parts I and II of this contribution. Part III addresses investigations on residual stress evolution affecting crack formation and discusses the transferability of results from large-scale testing to laboratory-scale. Experiments with test set-ups at different scales under diverse rigidity conditions and an assessment of the residual stresses of the weld-specimens using X-ray (surface near) and neutron diffraction analysis (bulk) were performed. This study aims to provide a way of investigating the SRC behaviour considering component-specific residual stresses via small-scale testing concepts instead of expensive weld mock-ups. KW - Welding KW - Creep-resistant steel KW - Residual stresses KW - Post-weld heat treatment KW - Stress relief cracking PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-524403 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40194-021-01101-7 SN - 1878-6669 VL - 65 SP - 1671 EP - 1685 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-52440 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -