Study of stress-corrosion cracking welded joints made X70 steel at cathodic polarization in near neutral solution NS4 was carried out. It established that the tendency base metal to cracking, estimated by KS coefficient, increases from 1.07 1.13 whereas potential changing corrosion maximum protective -1.05 V. Such regularity correlates with increasing hydrogen penetration through steel, which V...

Stress-corrosion cracking (SCC) tests were conducted in the near-neutral pH standard solution, NS4, and in an actual soil solution, using four-point bending at a high stress ratio and low frequency conditions very similar to those of operational pipelines. Pitting incubation appeared first and then pitting initiated and grew in both solutions although there were many more pits on the specimen t...

Single-crystal aluminas are being considered for use in the manufacture of prosthetic heart valves. To characterize such materials for biomedical application, subcritical crack growth by stress corrosion (static fatigue) and by cyclic fatigue has been examined in sapphire along (1100) planes in 24 degrees C humid air and 37 degrees C Ringer's solution (the latter as a simulated physiological en...

Managing pipe damaged by Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) has been a formidable challenge to the pipeline industry. The development of a practical solution for the measurement and evaluation of SCC has been marred by the complexity of crack shapes, their distribution within a crack colony, and the lack of non-destructive technology capable of reliably measuring the crack depths. Laser ultrasonic...

Cracking of the concrete cover due to corrosion is defined as the serviceability limit state of reinforced concrete structures. This study evaluated the influence of a mineral admixture i.e. nano wollastonite on corrosion performance and serviceability of reinforced concrete structures by performing an accelerated corrosion test on ten reinforced concrete beams under a sustained load. To do so,...