Research and cracking implications from an assessment of two variants of near-neutral pH crack colonies in liquid pipelines

Corrosion

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 648-660

  Bouaeshi, W ^a   Ironside, S ^b   Eadie, Reg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Enridge Pipelines Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corrosion fatique; Crack coalescence; Environmentally assisted cracking; Near neutral pH; Passivity; Pipelines; Steel; Stress corrosion cracking

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); CRACKS; PIPELINES; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEEL; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE DEFECTS;

CORROSION PRODUCTS; CRACK COALESCENCE; ENVIRONMENTALLY ASSISTED CRACKING; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION; NEAR-NEUTRAL PH; NEAR-NEUTRAL PH STRESS CORROSION CRACKINGS; PASSIVITY; SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION;

CRACK TIPS;

EID: 34548183076     PISSN: 00109312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5006/1.3278415     Document Type: Article

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