The effects of peak temperature and cooling rate on the susceptibility to intergranular corrosion of alloy 690 by laser beam and gas tungsten arc welding

Corrosion Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 439-445

  Lee, Hwa Teng ^a   Wu, Jia Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

A. Superalloys; B. Thermal cycling; B. Weight loss; C. Intergranular corrosion; C. Welding

Indexed keywords

EID: 60549102646     PISSN: 0010938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2009.01.002     Document Type: Letter

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