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Assessment of Stress Corrosion Cracking on Pipeline Steels Weldments Used in the Petroleum Industry by Slow Strain Rate Tests
Autor
OMAR VEGA
Resumen
The Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) is a local corrosion process which is characterized by
the initiation and propagation of cracks. It takes place under the simultaneous action of
sustained tensile stresses and specific corrosive environment on a susceptible material.
The formation of SCC occurs below the yield strength of the material and typically below
the design stress and fatigue limit of an engineering structure. Since the first discovery of
SCC on the exterior surface of a buried high pressure natural gas transmission pipeline in
1965 (Leis & Eiber, 1997), SCC has continued to make a significant contribution to the
number of leaks and ruptures in pipelines.
Two forms of SCC can exist on buried steel pipelines (Beavers & Harle, 2001). The first
discovered form of SCC propagates intergranularly and is associated with a concentrated
alkaline electrolyte in contact with the steel surface, commonly called as high pH-SCC or
classical SCC. A second form of SCC was discovered in Canada in the early 1980. This form
of SCC propagates transgranularly and is associated with a dilute neutral pH electrolyte in
contact with the steel surface, commonly called as low pH-SCC, non-classical, or near
neutral pH-SCC. Currently, there are some mechanisms proposed to explain the SCC
occurrence including the following: (1) a role for hydrogen in enhancing crack tip
dissolution; (2) a possible synergistic growth by fatigue and corrosion.
For high pH-SCC it is observed that the mechanism involves anodic dissolution for crack
initiation and propagation. In contrast, for low pH-SCC is associated with the dissolution of
the crack tip and sides, accompanied by the ingress of hydrogen in the steel. Steels with high
tensile strength are more susceptible to SCC. Cracks propagate as a result of anodic
dissolution in front of their tip in SCC process, due to the embrittlement of their tip by
hydrogen based mechanism. It was revealed that cracking behavior of pipeline steel in the
soil environment depends of the cathodic protection applied. Applying different potentials
levels the dominance of SCC process changes. At relatively low potential, the steel cracking
is based primarily on the anodic dissolution mechanism. When the applied potential
increases negatively, hydrogen is involved in the cracking process, resulting in a
transgranular cracking mode (Liu et al, 2008).
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