Inconel 600 wire- Excellent impact strength & mechanical properties

Inconel 600 wire is made from an alloy of nickel and chromium Inconel 600 that offers excellent resistance to oxidation & corrosion at high temperatures. This alloy can withstand heat and has good mechanical properties. This alloy has good workability & high strength.

Typical applications of this alloy are

·        Chemical processing

·        Nuclear engineering

·        Furnace components

·        Food processing

The high nickel content provides the alloy resistance to corrosion by many organic & inorganic compounds. Nickel also provides immunity to chloride-ion stress corrosion cracking. Chromium has resistance to sulfur compounds and oxidizing conditions at high temperatures or in corrosive solutions. This alloy is not precipitation hardenable and is hardened & strengthened by cold work. Inconel 600 alloy is used in various applications involving temperatures from cryogenic to above 2000°F.

Chemical industry

Inconel 600 alloy is used in the chemical industry due to its corrosion resistance and strength. Applications in chemical industry are

·        Bubble towers, heaters, stills & condensers for processing of fatty acids.

·        Equipment for handling abietic acid in the manufacture of paper pulp.

·        Tube sheets, evaporator tubes & flaking trays for the manufacture of sodium sulfide.

Heat-treating industry

Inconel 600 alloy is used in the heat-treating industry due to its strength & oxidation resistance at high temperatures. It is useful for muffles, retorts, roller hearths, heat-treating baskets & trays and other furnace components.

Aeronautical industry

Inconel 600 alloy is used in the aeronautical field for various engine & airframe components that withstand high temperatures such as exhaust liners, lockwire & turbine seals.

Electronic industry

Inconel 600 alloy is used for parts such as thyratron grids, springs, cathode-ray tube spiders and tube support members in the electronic industry.

Nuclear applications

 This alloy is a standard material of construction for nuclear reactors and has good resistance to corrosion by high-purity water and there is no chloride-ion stress corrosion cracking in reactor water systems.

Mechanical properties

Inconel 600 alloy can be hardened & strengthened in a broad range depending on the form & condition. This alloy exhibits moderate yield strengths of 25,000 to 50,000 psi in the annealed condition. Yield strengths in that range, combined with elongations of 55 to 35% allow the alloy to be fabricated. Heavily cold worked material can have tensile strengths of up to 220,000 psi.

Impact strength

Inconel 600 alloy has excellent impact strength at room temperature and retains virtually all of that strength at low temperatures. There is no tough-to-brittle transition with decreasing temperature.

Microstructure

Inconel 600 alloy is a stable & austenitic solid-solution alloy and the only precipitated phases present in the microstructure are titanium carbides, titanium nitrides and chromium carbides. Titanium nitrides & carbides are visible in polished microspecimens at magnifications of 50X or greater. Their appearance is as small, randomly dispersed & angular-shaped inclusions. There is a color difference as orange-yellow for the nitride & gray-lavender for the carbide. These nitrides & cyanonitrides are stable at temperatures below the melting point & are unaffected by heat treatment. Chromium carbides precipitate out of the solid solution at temperatures between 1000°F & 1800°F and the precipitation occurs at the grain boundaries & in the matrix.