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We give a quantitative estimate of changes in the structure of 15Kh2MFA steel after its long-term exposure to the combined action of high temperature, tensile stresses, and hydrogen as the factors of degradation of this steel under conditions of oil hydrocracking. Under laboratory conditions, we study the effect of high-temperature hydrogen degradation of 15Kh2MFA heat-resistant steel on changes in the quantitative characteristics of its structural elements, in particular, in the dimension and average distance between carbides as well as in their orientation from one grain to another. Algorithms for the solution of the formulated problems are described, and the possibilities of proposed approaches for the quantitative automatic processing of metallographic images are shown.
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Student, O.Z., Rusyn, B.P., Kysil', B.V. et al. Quantitative Analysis of Structural Changes in Steel Caused by High-Temperature Holding in Hydrogen. Materials Science 39, 17–24 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026114110176
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