Hydrogen induced cracking (HIC) testing of low alloy steel in sour environment: Impact of time of exposure on the extent of damage

Corrosion Science

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1386-1392

  Kittel, Jean ^a   Smanio, Véronique ^b   Fregonese, Marion ^c   Garnier, Laurence ^a   Lefebvre, Xavier ^a  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^b TOTAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

A. Low alloy steel; B. Hydrogen permeation; C. Hydrogen embrittlement; C. Sulphide cracking

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT; PERMEATION; STEEL METALLURGY; STEEL TESTING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

HYDROGEN CONCENTRATION; HYDROGEN PERMEATION; HYDROGEN PERMEATION MEASUREMENTS; HYDROGEN-INDUCED CRACKING; IMMERSION TESTING; MILDLY SOUR ENVIRONMENTS; PERMEATION EXPERIMENTS; SOUR ENVIRONMENT;

ALLOY STEEL;

EID: 77549087028     PISSN: 0010938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2009.11.044     Document Type: Article

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