Journal
CORROSION
Volume 78, Issue 10, Pages 963-981Publisher
NATL ASSOC CORROSION ENG
DOI: 10.5006/4145
Keywords
crack tip strain rate; modeling; pipelines; stress corrosion cracking
Funding
- U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration [693JK32010007POTA]
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This study focused on the SCC susceptibility and CGR behavior of three different pipeline steels in high pH carbonate/bicarbonate environments. It found that increasing temperature and low-cycle fatigue conditions lead to higher CGR. The applied potential strongly influenced the CGR behavior, and the developed model successfully predicted data under various loading conditions.
Aging pipeline infrastructure is subject to various degradation modes, in particular, there is a growing concern about stress corrosion cracking (SCC) from external environments. The current program focused on developing data in high pH carbonate/bicarbonate environments as a function of temperature, applied potential, and loading modes in three different pipeline steels. Crack growth rate (CGR) measurements indicate that the susceptibility to SCC increases with increasing temperature and is higher under low-cycle fatigue compared to constant K conditions. The CGR behavior at each temperature was a strong function of the applied potential, coinciding with the potential range of the active-passive transition in the polarization scans. The potential at which a peak in crack growth rate was observed, coincided with the peak value of the ratio of the current density from the fast to slow scans. The CGR data were fitted to a crack tip strain rate-based model to account for both the cyclic as well as static CGR. The model developed was able to successfully predict prior data in the literature generated under various loading conditions.
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