When the precipitate is not yet coarsened as shorter in rupture life, the precipitation hardening effect may be intensified by the increasing of precipitate, so that the high temperature strength may be raised by the increase of W content, while the precipitate may coarsen markedly and the precipitation hardening effect may reduce on heating for sufficient long time.
It was found that bainitic transformation unit s and ferrite plates which these units form, are much coarsened and their morphologies are greatly modified under the influence of this external stress.