Martensitic stainless steels have been used for hydraulic turbines manufacturing, because its high toughness. However, these steels have some restrictions regarding regions recovered by welding, mainly by non-tempered martensite formation, promoting toughness reduction. Concerning hydraulic turbine repairs, there is a great interest in welding procedures development that promotes a better toughness, without post welding heat treatment (PWHT). The mainly objective of this paper is analyze the influence of interpass temperature on the microstructure, impact toughness and fatigue crack propagation in CA6NM martensitic stainless steel multipass welded joints, with AWS410NiMo filler metal, with GTAW (gas tungsten arc welding). It was observed the interpass temperature influence on ferrite δ formation, observing intergranular ferrite d formation on the d+g field in 80 ºC interpass temperature, while the sample welded at 150 ºC the formation of ferrite d occurs mainly in the δ monophase field. Ferrite d formation with the lowest temperature interpass promoted an increase in impact toughness and a decrease in the fatigue crack propagation when compared with 150ºC interpass temperature sample. It was observed that GTAW process can be an excellent alternative for CA6NM hydraulic turbine repair, it was also observed a significant interpass temperature influence.
fatigue crack propagation; soft martensitic stainless steel; impact toughness
