Effect of High Temperature Hot Corrosion on the Compression Creep Behavior of 12Cr1MoV Alloys

Abstract This paper highlights the effect of 70 %NaCl–30 %KCl salt mixture on compression creep properties of 12Cr1MoV alloys at 100 MPa (948.15 K, 973.15 K and 998.15 K) in air using bare specimens and specimens in corrosive environment. The corrosive specimens were also tested at 923.15 K (150 MPa, 175 MPa and 200 MPa). Experimental results showed that the specimen in chloride mixture showed relatively high compression creep strain and steady-state creep rates compared with the bare specimen, and this effect accelerated with the increased temperature, especially when it was above 973.15 K. The creep mechanisms of the specimen in chloride mixture were inferred from gliding and climbing of dislocations of the stress exponent. Damage of hot corrosion in creep deformation was found to be associated with the layer fracture attributing to the initiation and propagation from the intergranular cracks and reduction of the bare area caused by the internal transgranular attack of chloride mixture.