Sulfide stress cracking resistance of API-X100 high strength low alloy steel

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4088-4094

  Al Mansour, M ^a   Alfantazi, A M ^b   El boujdaini, M ^c  

^a SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CANMET MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Environmental performance; Ferrous metals and alloys; Microstructure

Indexed keywords

CORROSION PITS; CRACK INITIATION SITES; ELECTROCHEMICAL POLARIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; FERROUS METALS AND ALLOYS; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH STRENGTH LOW ALLOY STEELS; HYDROGEN TRAP; INHOMOGENEOUS MICROSTRUCTURE; METAL SURFACES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SULFIDE STRESS CRACKING; SULFIDE STRESS CRACKING RESISTANCES; THRESHOLD STRESS; YIELD STRENGTH;

ALLOYS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT; IRON; MICROSTRUCTURE; STEEL; STEEL METALLURGY; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

CORROSION RATE;

EID: 67649405976     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2009.05.025     Document Type: Article

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