| Summary: | 9%Ni steel was recently used for the first time in the field of injection unit (IU) for the injection of CO<sub>2</sub> into oil wells. Because such steels are operated in H<sub>2</sub>S medium and are susceptible to sulfide stress cracking, their pipes are cladded with Ni-based superalloy 625 by using gas tungsten arc welding with a hot wire to prevent this phenomenon from occurring. The transition zone of substrate/clad can have high hardness and low toughness, and promote failure of the component during service; therefore, it is very important to know its characteristics. In this work, this transition zone was analyzed through optical and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry and electron backscatter diffraction, as well as Vickers microhardness, shear and bend tests. Metallographic analysis identified type I and II boundaries with distinct chemical gradients, MC-type carbides, Laves/<i>γ</i> eutectics, peninsulas macrosegregation, crystallographic texture close to <100> in the clads, residual strain, and drop of microhardness across the transition zone. The clads were approved in the shear and bend tests. This work proposes a new type II boundary formation mechanism in dissimilar welds of steels that do not exhibit the allotropic transformation <i>δ</i> → <i>γ</i> during the welding thermal cycle and do not experience a change in the solidification mode.
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