Effect of crack depth on fatigue crack growth rates for a C-Mn pipeline steel in a sour environment

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 288-296

  Holtam, Colum M ^a   Baxter, David P ^a   Ashcroft, Ian A ^b   Thomson, Rachel C ^b  

^a TWI LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Pipeline; Shallow; Sour; Steel

Indexed keywords

APPLIED STRESS INTENSITY; CRACK DEPTHS; CRACK GROWTH; CRACK GROWTH RATES; FATIGUE; FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH RATES; MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARENT MATERIALS; PIPELINE STEEL; SETTING CONDITION; SHALLOW; SOUR; SOUR ENVIRONMENT; SPECIMEN SURFACES; X65 PIPE-LINE STEEL;

FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; PIPELINES; STEEL PIPE; WELDS;

CRACKS;

EID: 70350787213     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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