Powder eutectic coating of SUS316 for the purpose of improvement of corrosion resistance in Pb-Bi

Sato, Hidetomo*; Nakano, Hiromasa*; Yokota, Hitoshi*; Suzuki, Tetsuya*; Maekawa, Katsuhiro*; Kurata, Yuji

Liquid lead-bismuth is a candidate material used for accelerator driven systems and fast reactors. One of difficulties to apply Pb-Bi to nuclear systems is the corrosiveness of liquid Pb-Bi to structural steels. For this reason the study has been focused on improvement of corrosion resistance due to addition of Si and Al to steels. In this study, type 316 stainless steel was coated by Al-Ti-Fe eutectic alloy layer to enhance corrosion resistance in liquid lead-bismuth. The coating was conducted by a powder eutectic method using laser heating. The optimum condition to produce good coating layers was obtained concerning laser pulse energy and chemical composition of powders.