The high wearing resistance of the samples after hydrocooling and air cooling was partially attributed to martensite transformation and work-hardening.
It holds that main causes promoting crack on martensite stainless steel are gross martensite and crystal boundary carburet and secondary phase distributed along crystal boundary.
The crack initiates at stress concentration point in the root of weld, where has much more martenite, carbide and inclusion, and the serious hydrogen segregation.