Metallurgical examination of a pipe from a hydrotest failure site revealed deflected stress corrosion cracking (SCC) cracks. The deflected SCC cracks changed direction at a depth of 200 - 600 my m from the outer surface with an initial straight section in axial direction, then an inclined segment to the circumferential direction. The deflection angles were in the range of 30 - 50 deg. Statistically more than 50% of all the cracks with a straight length of 200 - 600 my m were deflected. Crack branching was present during the propagation of cracks at the deflection point and/or at the crack tip. The branched cracks were roughly 90 deg to each other. All SCC cracks were in longitudinal direction on the surface and the entire cracks length is located within a layer of ca. 2.5mm from the surface. Corrosion pits and intergranular corrosion formed on the surface and/or inside of the cracks, resulting in accumulation of corrosion products inside the crack and material loss due to isolated grains from the intergranular corrosion. To understand the cause of the deflected SCC cracks, detailed investigations were conducted on the morphology and distribution of SCC cracks, initiation and propagation of SCC cracks, microstructural and microhardness characterization, mechanical properties. It is revealed that there were no unusual changes in microhardness, mechanical properties and microstructural characterization along the pipe wall thickness. A condition of residual shear stress is believed to have been established at the surface region of 200 - 600 my m, thus promoting the deflection of the SCC cracks.


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    Titel :

    Mechanistic investigation of deflected stress corrosion cracking in pipeline steels


    Beteiligte:
    Xie, Jeffrey (Autor:in) / Yang, Lin (Autor:in) / Sen, Millan (Autor:in) / Worthingham, Robert (Autor:in) / King, Fraser (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2009


    Format / Umfang :

    19 Seiten, 17 Quellen


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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