A new understanding of intergranular stress corrosion cracking resistance of pipeline steel through grain boundary character and crystallographic texture studies

Corrosion Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-128

  Arafin, M A ^a   Szpunar, J A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

A. Steel; B. EBSD; B. SEM; B. X ray diffraction; C. Stress corrosion

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; CORROSION RESISTANCE; CRACK TIPS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); CRACKS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PINCH EFFECT; PIPELINES; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEEL; STEEL PIPE; TEXTURES; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

A. STEEL; B. EBSD; B. SEM; B. X-RAY DIFFRACTION; C. STRESS CORROSION;

STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

EID: 58049127841     PISSN: 0010938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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